Carmen Comsti is Lead Regulatory Policy Specialist at National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country with over 225,000 members across the United States. Previously serving as Legal Counsel for the union, she has been a key member of NNU’s legislative drafting and policy teams on numerous state and federal issues, including on artificial intelligence in health care and other health care technologies, health care consolidation, single-payer health care legislation, hospital closures, and employer-mandated training repayment agreements. She has also worked on the union’s legislative and regulatory campaigns on medical debt protections, safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, workplace health and safety on Covid-19, and many others. Carmen has co-authored seminal reports and papers for the union, including “Protecting Our Front Line: Ending the Shortage of Good Nursing Jobs and the Industry-Created Short Staffing Crisis” and “Deadly Shame: Redressing the Devaluation of Registered Nurse Labor Through Pandemic Equity.” She also served as a Commissioner on the Healthy California for All Commission, which was tasked with developing a plan to achieve a state-based universal health care program in California. Carmen has a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.