Allie Gross advises healthcare leaders through high-stakes moments, providing strategic communications counsel with a focus on issue navigation, advocacy and organizational transformation.
She works closely with executives and communications leaders to align stakeholders, build trust and advance organizational priorities in complex environments. Her work spans academic health systems, children’s hospitals, state hospital associations and other healthcare organizations across the country.
Gross brings deep experience in protecting reputation amid crises and complex issues, building and activating advocacy campaigns and developing communications strategies to support moments of large-scale change, including mergers and partnerships.
Prior to joining Jarrard Inc. in 2020, Gross worked as a journalist at the Jackson Hole News&Guide, a national award-winning local newspaper in Wyoming. Her coverage focused on local and state government and public policy. Her coverage focused on government and public policy, as well as the complexities of balancing housing, transportation and conservation in a community home to two national parks. The Wyoming Press Association awarded her the Young Journalist of the Year for 2019.
Gross earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish from Vanderbilt University, where she was a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar. While at Vanderbilt, she served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper and held internships at Nashville Public Radio and The Contributor, a local newspaper sold by vendors experiencing homelessness. She is currently pursuing her master’s in business administration at Belmont University in Nashville.
Worth Knowing:
- Always in the middle of knitting a sweater
- Has dressed as Weird Al Yankovic for every Halloween since 2014
- Avid hiker and aspiring fisherwoman
