G. Denise Barksdale

G. Denise Barksdale is executive assistant to the CEO at New America. She handles the day-to-day administrative functions and duties for the executive office, as well as assisting the development staff with the managing of the CEO’s external relationships with partners and funders. Barksdale has more than 20 years being an administrative director at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies; her most recent experience was as associate director of government and public affairs, overseeing the administrative staff and functions, at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, she was administrative manager at Warner-Lambert Co.