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Jake Williams (he/him) is the founding CEO of Healthier United. He previously led Healthier Colorado and created a series of complementary entities that now constitute the family of Healthier organizations. At Healthier Colorado, his team secured policy wins such as universal access to preschool, significant reductions in consumer health care costs, improving access to mental health support, elevating childhood immunization rates, and reducing youth use of nicotine. They also successfully influenced hundreds of candidate elections and supported dozens of victorious ballot measures.

As the host of the Wooden Teeth podcast, Jake engages in discussions centered on the intersection of politics and health. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Sungate Kids, an organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse and supporting survivors and their families. Earlier in his career, Jake worked to change state laws across the country to realize LGBTQ equality, led state and federal campaigns to conserve natural resources and address climate change, worked within the labor movement to support health care workers, and served as an operative within electoral campaigns at the local, state and federal levels.

Jake is a proud citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, and an active Potawatomi language learner. He earned a Master of Science in Comparative Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics, an Executive MBA from Brown and IE Universities, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communications from the University of Michigan. He lives with his wife and two children in Colorado.