Courtney Lang is a strategic communications and health justice expert whose primary focus is advocacy, activism, and grassroots mobilization. She is the principal and founder of Langco + Partners, a public affairs firm recognized for mobilizing constituencies to achieve impactful business goals aligned with equity in health care and public policy.
Courtney is a member of the Board of Directors for Trinity Health and serves on the Integrity & Audit Committee. Additionally, Courtney serves on the Board of Directors for Mental Health America as Chair of the Anti-Racism, Equity, and Social Justice (ARES) Committee. Courtney also serves as an adjunct professor of Media Law and Leadership Communications. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pepperdine University, earned a Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and studied Comparative Health Law and Policy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
In 2008, the 110th Congress passed H. Con. Res 134, with concurrent bicameral support, to commemorate July as “Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.” The Honorable Albert Wynn sponsored the resolution, which would later serve as a foundation and vehicle for a national advocacy movement to address the inequities in mental health care for people of color.