Welcome to RHLS’s first-ever Director of Policy, Deanna Dyer, J.D.

Deanna Dyer is an advocate and attorney with over 20 years of progressive leadership in the social justice movement spanning the public and private sectors. She is a skilled strategist with deep expertise in policy development, coalition building, and legislative advocacy at the state and federal levels. 

Deanna has an impressive record of securing major funding increases, advancing housing and economic justice reforms, and mobilizing bipartisan support for policy change. She is a collaborative leader with a commitment to racial equity, community-driven advocacy, and housing justice.

Deanna comes to RHLS from Children First, where she served as the Children’s Health Policy Director. Prior to this role, she served as the Policy Director at the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, where she spearheaded the largest budget increase in the coalition’s history—$2.5 million in FY25—through bipartisan support, including a supermajority in the Republican Senate, accomplished in part by mobilizing more than 100 advocates to lobby all 253 members of the General Assembly.

We are thrilled to have Deanna join our team to lead advocacy campaigns.