About Renee Gross
Renee is the community behavioral health initiatives lead at Kaiser Permanente. In her role, Renee directs large-scale, high-impact community behavioral health programs and drives strategic alignment with organizational and state priorities. This includes working in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate community efforts across behavioral health, including workforce and peer support services. Prior to this role, Renee served as a senior health policy consultant at KP’s Institute for Health Policy, where she led mental health policy initiatives and contributed expertise to a variety of healthcare topics—including food security, behavioral health services in schools, child trauma and resiliency, and Medicaid and Medicare trends. Prior to joining KP, Renee’s career included legal, policy, and advocacy roles, working in legal aid and several nonprofit organizations.
Renee holds a bachelor’s degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. In her free time, Renee enjoys drinking coffee, reading, and spending time with her family.