About me
Kendra is a Principal in the Insurance, Retirement and Healthcare practice at Mindset.
Prior to joining Mindset, she served as the Pensions Policy Director and Senior Tax
Counsel for the Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray and the Senate Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. In these positions, she advised then-Chair
Patty Murray on all pension-related issues and managed all aspects of the committee’s
retirement agenda. Kendra has many notable legislative accomplishments, such as the
“Save our Community Newspaper Act,” the retirement provisions in the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” the “Butch Lewis Emergency Pension
Plan Relief Act,” which was included in the “American Rescue Plan Act”, and most
recently, “SECURE 2.0.” Kendra also managed the Senator’s economic and tax
portfolios, which included staffing the Senator in her role as a Conference Committee
member on the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.”
Kendra also served as a Department of Labor detailee to the House Committee on
Education and the Workforce as well as an Employee Benefits Law Specialist for the
Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Kendra’s private
sector career includes positions at the HR Policy Association, the law firms Slevin &
Hart, P.C. and Venable LLP, as well as at Washington Council Ernst & Young.
Kendra has been an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, the
Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, and Stetson University College
of Law, and is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (LLM, Tax), The
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (JD), and Dartmouth College.
