Diana Forester is the Director of Health Policy at Texans Care for Children, where she leads the organization’s legislative, agency, and coalition advocacy to improve health coverage and care for Texas children and moms. Since joining the organization in 2022, Diana has led successful advocacy to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months and has helped advance multiple maternal health policies. Her team has also secured continued state funding for Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) and investments to modernize Texas’s Medicaid and SNAP eligibility systems.
Before joining Texans Care for Children, Diana spent more than a decade at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), where she served in senior roles focused on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, ACA implementation, and maternal health quality initiatives. She has also worked in the Texas Legislature, at a community-based nonprofit, and in private-sector legislative advocacy. Diana is frequently quoted in the media on maternal and child health policy, Medicaid coverage, and health system administration.
Diana holds a Master of Public Health from the Texas A&M University School of Rural Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin.
