A Conference Committee Update
We’re entering the bring-it-on-home portion of the two year (2025-2026) legislative session and more and more House and Senate bills will be reconciled by bipartisan conference committees which [...]
Reflecting on the Importance of Higher Education
Thoughts from Legal Fellow Janine Nanez, 2L Northeastern Law, reflecting on the importance of higher education following their time working on higher education policy in our office. Like [...]
Fiscal Policy Wonks Unite
Written by Chief of Staff Jared Freedman What do Trump’s tariffs and persistent inflation mean for state budgets? Why are so many states moving to decouple from the federal […]
Celebrating the launch of a new Campus Pantry
On September 5, I joined District Director Elena Cohen and Constituent Services Director Jessie Cooley from our team at the launch of a new Campus Pantry at UMass Amherst. This […]
One day, three hearings
On June 3, my team and I faced a potentially impossible task: I was Chairing a hearing of the Joint Committee on Higher Education, at the exact same time two […]
Thoughts for the rising generation of public policy leaders
On Friday, April 25, I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of giving a keynote speech at “Policy in Action: I Am a Policy Maker, Now What?” an event hosted […]
The hope of Pi Sigma Alpha
On March 31, I was honored to share a few words with the new inductees to the Pi Sigma Alpha organization at UMass Amherst, which is the National Honors Society […]
The school funding formula has ‘left us out’
On March 24, I had the opportunity to host and Chair a Joint Committee on Ways and Means hearing at UMass Amherst focused on the education and local aid funding […]
