Data Analyst and Operations Coordinator
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Justice • Competitive Grant Update • Website • Billing • Mailing List • General Inquiries
Ethan Ableman is FFIS’s Data Analyst and Operations Coordinator, which means their job description encompasses anything the boss says it does. Luckily, they’re multi-talented and a good sport, who comes to FFIS after an internship at NPR and a couple of research gigs in Oberlin, Ohio (where they attended college). At Oberlin, Ethan called contra dances, cooked a weekly meal for 35 people, and occasionally studied statistics for their psychology major. Ethan also is a licensed massage therapist. In short, they’re a 21st century renaissance polymath. Oh, and they love spreadsheets. Ethan hails from the DC area.
Chief Analyst
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Energy • Environment • Disaster Assistance • General Government • Homeland Security • Interior • Natural Resources • Transportation
Andrew Olson is our infrastructure guru. He tracks most of the federal agencies that received a big infusion of cash as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and spends most of his time keeping track of all that money and what it means to states. His obsession with making sure all the numbers add up and reconcile make this more than a full-time job. He also contributes to State Policy Reports. As a codger inhabiting a young person's body, Andrew bemoans the high cost and incivility of urban life and spends his free time searching for remote cabins in the mountains and hiking with his wife and their two dogs. He has a bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Keene State College in New Hampshire.
Budget and Policy Analyst Sydnee Pottebaum is FFIS's newest member. Before joining our team, Sydnee worked with the Virginia Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee where she analyzed budget and policy issues in the Transportation and Health and Human Resources Secretariats. In her free time, Sydnee likes to read an enormous amount of books and spend time outside doing all sorts of activities. She is a South Dakota native and has a bachelor's degree from the University of South Dakota and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Virginia.
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Agriculture • Commerce • Education • Housing • Labor • Nutrition
Executive Director
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Medicaid • CHIP • Public Health • Human Services • Federal Budget Process • Grants Management
Trinity Tomsic is the executive director of FFIS. Before joining FFIS, she worked in the Grants Management Division of Maryland's Department of Human Services, where she managed more than $1 billion in federal health and human services funds. She has also analyzed state budget and federal funding issues for the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Association of State Budget Officers.
A Utah native, Tomsic holds a master's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree from American University in Washington, DC. Outside the office she volunteers at an urban education farm, spends as much time as possible with her two dogs, and has a habit of saying yes to long walks—including the Camino del Norte and the occasional 50 miles in a single day.
444 N Capitol Street NW Suite 642
Washington, DC 20001-1511