 Formerly Vice President with The Lewin Group, Edmunds has held senior positions at the University of California, San Francisco; Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies; Children's Defense Fund (CDF); and American Institutes for Research.At the IOM, she directed studies on health insurance and access to care and provided testimony on children’s coverage to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.In 2000, she and her team at CDF released "All Over the Map", a report on progress implementing the State Children's Health Insurance Program.