Leah Gardner is the Minnesota Budget Project Outreach Coordinator. She currently is working to build awareness and community engagement around the impacts of climate change and climate change policies on low-income Minnesotans and supports the Invest in Minnesota campaign uniting faith, labor and nonprofit organizations around fair revenue-raising principles. Her background in the nonprofit community includes direct service, fundraising, public policy and public relations work to support programs to improve self-sufficiency for low-income families and to advance a statewide initiative to end homelessness. Leah holds a B.A. in business from the University of St. Thomas and M.A. in public policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.