Antoinette “Toni” Gingerelli is a nationally recognized policy strategist and advocate working at the intersection of caregiving, health equity, workforce, and gender. She currently serves as Director of Policy and Advocacy at the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), where she leads major initiatives to transform the nation’s care infrastructure for America’s 63 million family caregivers.

Toni directs the Caregiver Nation Coalition (formerly the Act on RAISE campaign), which has secured more than $22 million in funding, influenced Medicare policy to reimburse caregiver training, and built a coalition of over 130 partner organizations. She led NAC’s inaugural Caregiver Nation Advocacy Day and the two that followed, training more than 260 advocates to share their stories directly with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Additionally, she co-led the Together in Care initiative with PHI, advancing integrated policy solutions to strengthen the relationship between family caregivers and the direct care workforce.

Before joining NAC, she served as Chief of Staff in the New Jersey State Senate, where she oversaw the senator’s policy agenda, launched COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and advanced key public health, education, and economic security legislation.

Toni also worked as a consultant and research assistant for the Project on Workforce at Harvard, where she contributed to projects on healthcare innovation, certified nursing assistant recruitment and retention, and career ladders for peer support workers. She previously served as a Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ Fellow in the Office of Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, developing a public report on equity and inclusivity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Rutgers University, and her writing has been featured in STAT News, Ms. Magazine, and the Harvard Kennedy School Gender Policy Journal. Grounded in lived experience and systems-level strategy, she is committed to building a future where care is visible, valued, and treated as central to public health.