Abby Tighe is a founding member of Fired but Fighting (FBF), a coalition of terminated CDC-ers and public health allies. Abby along, with her colleagues from CDC established the FBF coalition following their illegal terminations from the Centers for Disease. She is a former CDC public health advisor. In this role, she served as a project officer in the Drug Free Communities branch, where she worked directly with local organizations to support youth substance use prevention. Abby's experience prior to CDC includes serving as the communications lead for a CDC-funded research grant at Emory, holding an associate role at a PR firm that served NCHHSTP, and working as a Pathways Intern at HRSA where she worked on opioid crisis response.