Alicia is a partner and a Public Health Sector Leader who is passionate about serving mission-based organizations and helping them transform to make a positive impact on society while balancing cost efficiency, service, quality and compliance.. Alicia serves as our firm diversity leader, commercial healthcare practice leader and global engagement. partner for key federal healthcare accounts, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She has more than 25 years of consulting experience serving clients and growing high performing teams. Throughout her career, she has served the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Military Health System, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, state and local governments, for-profit education organizations, public and private colleges and universities, academic medical centers and commercial healthcare providers.. Before joining Guidehouse, Alicia was a partner at PwC where she was the commercial healthcare provider leader that grew the academic medical center and education advisory business, a vice president at BearingPoint and partner at KPMG Peat Marwick.