Julia Chaney is Senior Vice President of Capitol Hill Consulting Group, a mid-sized, Washington, DC-based, government relations firm dedicated to providing comprehensive and individually tailored strategies to meet the diverse needs of its clients.  Ms. Chaney’s expertise includes appropriations, education, health care, energy, and economic development issues.  Ms. Chaney’s experience also includes representation of local governments – large and small, urban and rural. In 2000, the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute (CBC Institute) launched its’s premier event, the annual Tunica, Mississippi Policy Conference in Tunica, Mississippi. For more than 15 years, Ms. Chaney served as the Coordinator for the event – – which brought Members of the Congressional Black Caucus together with community development and labor professionals, and representatives from the corporate and business community.