Experienced and connected, the RYP Granite Strategies team helps clients both large and small navigate the legislative process and the often complex workings of state government. The Granite Strategies team is comprised of accomplished professionals with diverse backgrounds, talents and relationships. We are known, respected and trusted within the halls of government, where our bipartisan relationships and fundamental understanding of client needs are the foundation of a commitment to positive results for each and every client.

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We offer clients a full range of advocacy and public policy services and take pride in our ability to understand the issues and shape solutions. The legislative and government services realms are often complicated and always demanding. We see the challenges as opportunities for our clients. Individualized services include:

• Legislative Lobbying
• Issue Advocacy
• Contract Procurement
• State Permitting
• Local Government Advocacy
• State Funding

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GINA R. POWERS serves as Director of Government Relations with RYP Granite Strategies. Since joining the firm of Rath, Young and Pignatelli, Gina has successfully represented a number of clients in the health care, education and non-profit industries before the Legislative and Executive Branches. She specializes in monitoring legislative and regulatory activity, drafting and delivering testimony, working collaboratively with legislators, stakeholders and agency representatives and interacting with and advising clients on legislative and public affairs issues. Prior to her work in the private sector, Gina spent several years interning for the Rhode Island Senate Policy office.

When not at the State House or in the office, Gina serves on the boards of Moore Center Services and the Mary Gale Foundation and is a volunteer with Merrimack Home Health and Hospice. She recently graduated from the inaugural cohort of the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits Hoffman-Hass Fellowship and is continuing her involvement as a member of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce’s Government Affairs Committee. A native of Rhode Island, Gina graduated cum laude from St. Anselm College with a B.A. in History.