Vatsala Pathy – Colorado State Gov. Vatsala Pathy brings over 17 years of experience in healthcare and public health. She is presently the SIM Director in the Office of Governor John Hickenlooper. Prior to that, she was the Founder and Managing Director of Rootstock Solutions LLC, a healthcare consulting firm. She was also a senior program officer at The Colorado Health Foundation, where she was responsible for grant making and initiative development to support healthcare delivery for low-income populations. Vatsala was a program officer at the CDC Foundation, where she served as a steward and manager of a number of national and international public health projects. She has extensive experience on state health policy research and program implementation with the Office of Colorado Governor Roy Romer, the Georgia Health Policy Center and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado. Vatsala is a recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and was selected to participate in the University of Colorado’s Denver Community Leadership Forum. She is presently a trustee and chair of the strategic planning committee for the Bonfils Blood Center Operating Board, a board member of Playworks, and trustee and chair of the heritage committee at St. Anne’s Episcopal School. Vatsala received a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a Master of Arts degree from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated cum laude with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history with a Latin America concentration and a minor in North American Studies from The Colorado College.