L4GG’s State Legislative Advocacy Academy
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2022 Intro Session - Roadmap for Progressive Change: Why State Legislative Advocacy Matters
Speaker: Brendan Fischer
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Hertel-Fernandez, Alex. State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States and the Nation, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Jane Mayer, Is Ikea the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, NEW YORKER (Nov. 15, 2013)
David Gelles, How Republicans are ”Weaponizing” Public Office Against Climate Action, NEW YORK TIMES (Aug. 5, 2022)
Dark Money Group Weaponizes State Treasurers in Attack on Climate Policy, DOCUMENTED
Module 1 - Rules of Engagement: How State Legislatures Work
Speaker: Jessie Ulibarri
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State Legislature Websites, Congress.gov: https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites
Learning the Game, National Conference of State Legislatures: https://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/learning-the-game.aspx
Indivisible States, How State Legislatures Work, Indivisible: https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-states-how-state-legislatures-work
Module 2 - Follow the Money: How the Budget Process Works
Speakers: Michael Cassidy, Erica Williams, Chris Hoene, & Marisa Bono
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
State Budgets Basics: https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-budgets-basics
State Partners: https://statepriorities.org/state-priorities-partners/
State Budget and Tax: https://www.cbpp.org/research/topics/state-budget-and-tax
DC Fiscal Policy Institute, Budgeting for a Just Economy and a Just Future: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om#inbox/FMfcgzGqQcrCKxJGFGKGLxVMkMpQMJPC?projector=1&messagePartId=0.2
Module 3 - The Main Stage: How State Legislative Committees Work
Speakers: Guillermo Mena, Tracie Gardner & Shanetta Paskel
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Module 4 - Let’s Talk: How to Effectively Communicate with Lawmakers
Speaker: Amber Harding
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Module 5 - Dream Teams: How to Form Winning Partnership with Advocates in Your State
Speaker: Jennifer Allen
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Module 6 - Advocacy in Action: Exploring Reproductive Health and Bodily Autonomy
Speakers: LaTonya Joyner-Gregory and Khadijah Silver
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Module 7 - Advocacy in Action: Examining Youth Civil Rights
Speakers: Ellen Reddy & Mika Fernandez
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Mark R. Warren, Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Comeback States: Reducing youth incarceration in the United States, National Juvenile Justice Network & Texas Public Policy Foundation (June 2013)
Cruel Schools, Lawyers for Good Government
Module 8 - Advocacy in Action: Exploring Climate Change Policy
Speakers: Chris Tavenor, Jillian Blanchard & Lauren Thomson
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SLAA Celebration and 2023 Kickoff
Speaker: Fraidy Reiss
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2023 Intro Session - Agents of Change: Why State Legislative Advocacy Matters
Speaker: David Boaz, Lauren Wilton, Adam Jaskowiak & Amanda Walsh
Module 9 - Advocacy in Action: Re-Examining Climate Change
Speakers: Alicia Smith, Jillian Blanchard & Nick Leonard
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Module 10 - Advocacy in Action: Re-Examining Youth Civil Rights
Speakers: Ellen Reddy
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Module 11 - Advocacy in Action: Re-Examining Reproductive Justice & Bodily Autonomy
Speakers: Alyssa Morrison
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