Margaret Nugent has worked in the Medicare field for over seven years, beginning with the start of Medicare Part D. As the Medicare trainer and counselor for the Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources, Inc., she prepares resources and provides trainings to benefit specialists and other professionals statewide. She recently finished several years coordinating two grants totaling $2 million to fund outreach to Medicare beneficiaries in Wisconsin. The program helped over 21,000 older or disabled adults to apply for help paying their Medicare costs, resulting in an estimated savings of over $57 million a year for these individuals.  Nugent is a native Milwaukeean who received her B.A. in journalism and political science at Marquette University, her master's and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, and also a master's in pastoral studies from St. Francis Seminary.