Kellan Baker MA, MPH

Kellan Baker is a Senior Fellow with the LGBT Research and Communications Project at American Progress. His work includes improving data collection about LGBT populations, working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a range of LGBT health policy priorities, and advancing LGBT issues internationally.

Baker is a founding steering committee member of Out2Enroll, a nationwide initiative that conducts community education and trains enrollment assisters to help connect LGBT people and their families with their new coverage options under the Affordable Care Act. He also directs the LGBT State Exchanges Project, which partners with LGBT and consumer health advocates in numerous states to ensure that the benefits of the Affordable Care Act reach LGBT communities. The project focuses on the operation of the health insurance marketplaces, with a particular emphasis on nondiscrimination and other insurance market reforms, consumer engagement, data collection, and closing the coverage gap through Medicaid expansion in every state.