Aubree Thelen, MPH, joined the American Cancer Society in August 2021. Aubree has public health policy and advocacy experience at the federal, state, and local level in topics as wide-ranging as violence, urban planning, and paid leave. She has worked hard to connect these issues to chronic disease and cancer through partnership over the last eight years of her career in Louisiana and Illinois. She is passionate about her career in public health as a way to influence equitable cancer prevention and care in the communities in which we live, work, play and learn. She graduated from Tulane University with her Master of Public Health in 2015. Aubree lives in Chicago, IL with her dog, Stella.