Meet Pew Experts at the NCSL Legislative Summit

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Meet Pew Experts at the NCSL Legislative Summit

Editor’s note: This page was updated with new information on the upcoming conference.

Meet with Pew experts during this year’s NCSL Legislative Summit. Our experts have researched a range of policy areas, including substance use treatment, natural disaster assistance, expanding broadband access, and fiscal and economic policies. They will be available for one-on-one meetings to discuss research trends and policy solutions to these key issues facing states.

Visit our booth (407) or sign up here to arrange a personal chat regarding any of the topics below.

Civil legal system modernization

Erika Rickard
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, legal technology, consumer debt, eviction, and guardianship

Consumer finance policy

Gabe Kravitz
Small-dollar loans such as payday and auto title lending market practices, borrower preferences, and state policy responses

Economic development strategies

Mark Robyn
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives and regulatory improvement

Environmental policy

Zach Bartscherer
Federal and state disaster and infrastructure policy, flooding, National Flood Insurance Program

Yaron Miller
Flood mitigation policy

Evidence-based policymaking

Ashleigh Holand
Using research and evidence in budget and policymaking

Expanding broadband access

Kathryn de Wit
State efforts to expand broadband access, state and federal broadband policies

Expanding dental care access

David Fifer
Dental access and policy

Erin Hass
Oral health care delivery

Justice Systems

Ken Hardy
Adult and juvenile justice systems 

State fiscal policies

Steve Bailey
Crafting a balanced and sustainable state budget, managing volatile tax sources, building and using rainy day funds, long-term fiscal trends

Stephen Fehr
State fiscal policy

Joe Fleming
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends

Colin Foard
Natural disaster assistance

Mary Murphy
State and local fiscal policy

Matt Reese
Federal grants to states

Becky Thiess
Higher education funding

Bob Zahradnik
State fiscal policy

Strengthening public sector retirement systems

David Draine
Data-driven research and technical assistance to help lawmakers strengthen public retirement systems

Fatima Yousofi
Data-driven research and technical assistance to help lawmakers strengthen public retirement systems

Aleena Oberthur
Data-driven research and technical assistance to help lawmakers strengthen public retirement systems

Substance use treatment

Beth Connolly
Opioid use disorder, substance use prevention and treatment, and behavioral health systems