Tammy M. Meckley has over 20 years of experience with U.S. Federal Government in the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, as well as service in the private sector, serving in key executive positions. Tammy holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from George Mason University.

As a senior executive, Tammy is the Associate Director (AD), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration Records and Identity Services Directorate (IRIS), formerly known as the Enterprise Services Directorate (ESD). She leads the Identity and Information Management Division, Verification Division and the National Records Center. She is responsible for providing stakeholders with timely and appropriate access to trusted immigration information in support of the missions and goals of USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This includes leading USCIS’ eProcessing initiative that will automate the entire immigration benefit application and adjudication system, managing the E-Verify and SAVE programs, and overseeing the largest FOIA program in the federal government. Tammy leads almost 1,000 federal employees and manages an annual program budget of ~$448 million. She challenges her team to think creatively about how IRIS can continuously enhance operational, customer, and employee efficiency and effectiveness. Prior to becoming the AD, Tammy served a four year term as the Deputy Associate Director for ESD.

As Vice President Policy Engagement, Lisa oversees SHRM’s public policy activities on Capitol Hill on issues important to the HR profession. She is responsible for implementing direct lobbying and member advocacy campaigns to influence HR public policy.  As a respected Washington Insider, Lisa has led several employer coalition efforts on key workplace issues. 

Since joining SHRM in 2004, Lisa has served as the organization’s lobbyist on public policy issues on Capitol Hill that impact the human resource profession. Prior to joining SHRM, Lisa worked for the U.S. House of Representatives as a staff member to two different Members of Congress.  A native Nebraskan, Lisa began her career as a senatorial aide in the Nebraska Legislature, while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

As the National Football League’s chief communications officer, Moore oversees all aspects of corporate affairs for the 100-year-old professional sports league, including football communications, strategic communications, corporate communications, executive communications, internal and stakeholder communications, government affairs, social responsibility and community relations. She first joined the NFL in 2016 to lead the league's Washington, D.C. office. 

Moore has been honored as a member of the inaugural class of “Notable Women in the Business of Sports” by Crain's New York Business and as a “Sports Betting Power Player” by both Sports Business Journal and Business Insider. 

Prior to joining the NFL, Moore served as a Managing Director in The Glover Park Group’s Government Affairs Division and spent 15 years in the United States Senate, most recently as Deputy Staff Director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. 

Moore is a proud graduate of the University of Florida, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and currently serves on the boards of the DC Rape Crisis Center, the University of Florida Foundation, the University of Florida Alumni Association, and the West Virginia University Health System. 

Tyson was the Chief Human Resources Officer for Dick’s Sporting Goods from August 2016 to January 2020. In this role, she was responsible for leading the overall talent strategy for the Company, while ensuring that the culture, practices, policies and operations aligned with the strategic organizational priorities and values.  She also provided strategic human resources leadership to the executive management team and board of directors.

Prior to joining DICK'S, Tyson served as the Chief Human Resources Officer at The Brink's Company from August 2012 to July 2016.

Prior to joining The Brink's Company, she was at Bristol-Myers Squibb from 2004 to 2012 with her final role as Vice President Human Resources U.S. Pharmaceuticals.

She began her career at Accenture & Cigna Corporation.  Tyson holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary.  She lives outside of Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and two boys and enjoys travel, skiing with her family and fitting in a run every now and then.

Heather Dean is the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at NSBA where she oversees the areas of finance, human resources, conference and meetings, information technologies, office services and facilities and business development. Prior to joining NSBA, Dean was the deputy executive director of programs and operations for the National Parent Teacher Association. She also worked as a Sarbanes Oxley officer and senior financial analyst at Siemens Energy, manager of financial planning and reporting at the National Rifle Association, and auditor at a Big Four accounting firm. A certified public accountant, Dean has more than 20 years of experience working with and/or in non-profit management.  She has a proven track record of helping non-profits with financial turn arounds and streamlining operations. Dean holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from Gettysburg College.

Gary Claxton is a Senior Vice President, the Director of the Program on the Health Care Marketplace at KFF.  The Health Care Marketplace Project provides information, research, and analysis about trends in the health care market and about policy proposals that relate to health insurance reform and our changing health care system.  The Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance examines changes in the private insurance market under the Affordable Care Act as federal and state policymakers implement provisions of the health reform law. Prior to joining KFF, Mr. Claxton worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at Georgetown University, where his research focused on health insurance and health care financing.  From March 1997 until January 2001, Mr. Claxton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he advised the Secretary on health policy issues including: improving access to health insurance, Medicare reform, administration of Medicaid, financing of prescription drugs, expanding patient rights, and health care privacy.   Other previous positions include serving as a consultant for the Lewin Group, a special assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, an insurance analyst for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and a health policy analyst for the American Association of Retired Persons.

Fred Humphries is Corporate Vice President of U.S Government Affairs for Microsoft. Under his leadership, U.S. Government Affairs provides expertise in policy, outreach, political engagement, and government affairs that helps advance the company’s advocacy goals.

Humphries is Microsoft’s chief public policy advocate internally and externally on all aspects of federal, state and civic affairs. He sets the company’s strategy and government affairs outreach on the most pressing policy issues facing the technology industry including cloud computing, taxes, privacy, trade, cyber security, education, immigration, and emerging technologies.  He also communicates with policymakers on Microsoft’s leadership role in fostering economic and job opportunities in the U.S.

In 2000, Humphries joined Microsoft as Director of State Governmental Affairs, building a team responsible for outreach to our nation’s governors, mayors and local elected officials in every state capital.  In that position, Humphries integrated on-the-ground state advocacy work into Microsoft’s overall corporate strategy, in coordination with the public sector, policy and lobbying teams.  He was promoted to Microsoft’s Managing Director of U.S. Government Affairs in 2009 and Corporate Vice President in 2015.

Humphries received a J.D. from Temple University School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College.

He proudly serves on the boards of numerous non-profit and public service organizations including Temple University Beasley School of Law, WETA Board of Trustees, Information Technology Industry Council, The Information Technology Industry Foundation, Internet Association, National Association of Manufacturers, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Martha’s Table Leadership Council, Software.org, Ford’s Theatre Board of Governors and the USTR Trade Advisory Committee on Africa. 

Humphries resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Kim. They have two adult children.

Chatrane Birbal is a director of policy engagement in SHRM national’s Alexandria, Va. office. In this capacity, she is actively involved in policy issues on Capitol Hill that impact the workplace. In her role, Ms. Birbal lobbies Congress in support of workplace public policy issues including workforce development, workplace equity, workplace flexibly and leave, workplace immigration and employer-sponsored benefits. 

Prior to joining SHRM, Ms. Birbal was the director of government relations at the Council on Foundations, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit membership association of some 2,000 grant making foundations and corporations, with assets totaling more than $282 billion. During her tenure at the Council, Ms. Birbal implemented strategies and launches programs in support of the organization’s public policy and government relations work. She lobbied Congress on tax legislation relating to charitable giving, raised the Council’s profile with Congress and other nonprofit organizations, advised members on legislative activities impacting philanthropy and planned and executed the Council’s annual legislative fly-in conference, “Foundations on the Hill.”

Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Birbal was a federal legislative lobbyist at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), an Arlington, Va.-based medical specialty society with over 38,000 U.S. and international member physicians who work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders, including mental retardation and substance-related disorders. During her tenure at APA, Ms. Birbal lobbied Congress on behalf of psychiatrists, planned and executed the association’s annual advocacy day training session for membership as well as developed the APA’s online advocacy action center to further legislative efforts on behalf of the psychiatry profession.

Chatrane previously served on the Board of Directors for the ACT for Alexandria community foundation.  ACT for Alexandria brings the community together to elevate local philanthropic giving and engagement to new heights, supports local nonprofits working to aid the most vulnerable and develops solutions for the community’s most pressing challenges. During her tenure on the Board Ms. Birbal supported the foundation’s initiatives including ACTion Alexandria, an online civic engagement platform and Spring2ACTion, 24 hours of online giving to support local nonprofits.

Chatrane obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the State University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. and received her graduate degree of public administration and public policy from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

Ms. Birbal currently serves on the Board of Directors of Women in Government Relations (WGR) - the premier, non-partisan professional society dedicated to advancing and empowering women by fostering professional development and growth opportunities through a community that supports women’s leadership in government relations. Ms. Birbal also serves as a member of the WGR Membership and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committees, developing and implementing recruitment strategies to attract and retain an engaged and diverse membership.

Betsy Lawrence is Counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship of the House Judiciary Committee.  Prior to this, she served as Director of Government Relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Washington, DC where she directed AILA’s agency and legislative advocacy efforts surrounding immigration benefits issues with an emphasis on employment-based immigration. Prior to joining AILA in 2008, she was an associate attorney at Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale in San Francisco where she represented clients with respect to all matters involving immigration and nationality law (business, family, asylum, removal defense). She has also served as an editor on several editions of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook, as well as the 2010-11 Edition of AILA’s Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law. She earned her JD from the University of San Francisco and is admitted to practice in California.