Lindsey Harris, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is a legislative fellow in the office of Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL 14), a family nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medicine, and an Assistant Professor at the UAB School of Nursing. Her areas of focus include health care disparities, access to care, mental health and nursing advocacy, among others. Lindsey was the first person of color to serve as president of the Alabama State Nurses Association. She is also past president of the Birmingham Black Nurses Association, and a member of the Hispanic Nurses Association and the Philippine Nurses Association. She completed a fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Health Policy in 2022 and was named a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2023. Lindsey earned her BSN from Samford University in Homewood AL, and an MSN with a concentration in Family Practice and her DNP from the UAB School of Nursing.
