California Watch

Bio

Judith Bell is the president of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute based in Oakland, Calif. The organization seeks to focus attention on how people are working successfully to use local, state and federal policies to create conditions that benefit everyone, especially people in low-income communities and communities of color. Bell was previously the director of the West Coast regional office of Consumers Union, where she focused on changing public policies to promote greater access to health care, financial services and low-cost auto insurance. Bell also developed and co-directed a 32-state project to preserve charitable assets as nonprofit health care institutions converted into for-profit businesses.