Our Team
We are a team of three, all of whom are senior in our careers with backgrounds in the private sector. We met in 2015 at a nonprofit focused on childhood health and wellness, where, together, we brokered landmark partnerships and agreements to better the health of those living in the U.S. We launched Commonality in 2018 to help clients address a range of social issues. We love working together and take pride in the work we do to support clients as they make big social impacts.
Founder & Managing Partner
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Anne Valik, MPH
Anne has over fourteen years of experience in relationship management, strategy development, and execution across the financial, nonprofit, and public sectors. She’s worked on Wall Street as a vice president at Credit Suisse, in food policy with New York City Council Member Ben Kallos, and in public health at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Via her healthcare and food systems work, Anne has launched groundbreaking partnerships with Amazon Business, the Urban School Food Alliance, Blue Shield of California, Delaware Health and Social Services, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the STOP Obesity Alliance, and many others. She has a BS in finance and international business from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, a certificate in strategic planning and execution from University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and is a certified integrative nutrition health coach.
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Elizabeth Vegas
Elizabeth has over two decades of experience developing strategy and partnerships across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She has worked in print media as the co-owner of a small publishing and wholesale distribution company and in nonprofit innovation as the director of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Food Access and Equity Strategy. Through her pioneering food systems work, Elizabeth developed over 150 partnerships with nonprofit, private, and governmental organizations. Elizabeth earned her BS in psychology and BA in English from DePaul University, is certified in design thinking for the social sector by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and serves on the Nutrition Advisory Board of the National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA).
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Jenny Bogard, MPH
Jenny has over eighteen years of experience in health behavior change, strategy development, and program design across the managed care, nonprofit, and public arenas. She’s held leadership roles in health insurance at Humana, in worksite wellness at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in community health as the director of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthcare Access and Equity Strategy. Through her work to expand obesity prevention and treatment healthcare coverage, Jenny has partnered with over 40 private payers, public payers, self-insured employers, and healthcare provider associations. Jenny has a BA in health administration from Florida Atlantic University and an MPH from the University of Miami. She also serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Payer Advisory Board, is a member of two Roundtable on Obesity working groups, and is part of the Prescription for Activity Taskforce Advisory Board.