Meet Pew Experts at the NCSL Legislative Summit

Meet with Pew experts during the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit. Our experts have researched and analyzed a range of policy areas, including fiscal policy, state disaster resilience and budgeting, infrastructure, crisis response and the courts, and broadband access. Pew speakers will be available for “office hours” at the Pew booth in the exhibit hall (#421) and will also be available for one-on-one meetings to discuss research trends and policy solutions to these key issues states are facing.

Visit Booth 421 or sign up here to arrange a one-on-one chat with a Pew policy expert. See below for a list of Pew’s office hours at the booth, as well as a list of all policy areas for which you can arrange a one-on-one meeting at the summit.

Office hours at the Pew booth (#421)

Transportation infrastructure, pension design and reform

Monday, Aug. 4, 12:15-1:30 p.m. EDT
Expert: David Draine

Budgeting for natural disasters, new and emerging fiscal risks, state management of federal funds

Monday, Aug. 4, 2:30-3:45 p.m. EDT
Expert: Peter Muller and Kristiane Huber

Floods, fires, and wind: Leading in the era of extreme weather

Tuesday, Aug. 5, 12-1:15 p.m. EDT
Expert: Mathew Sanders

Expanding broadband access

Tuesday, Aug. 5, 4-5:15 p.m. EDT
Expert: Jake Varn

Interested in a one-on-one meeting? Pew has experts at the summit focused on these policy areas:

• Broadband: Trends in state broadband policy and programs, and evidence-based solutions for broadband expansion.
• Courts and communities: State and local courts, consumer and medical debt lawsuits, eviction, and child guardianship.
• Energy modernization: Works with state and federal policymakers to modernize the transmission grid and accelerate adoption of large-scale energy generation and local, distributed energy, such as home solar and batteries.
• Housing: Increasing the supply of lower-cost forms of housing, improving access to small mortgages, financing for manufactured homes, and making alternative arrangements to purchase a home safely.
• Infrastructure funding: Challenges and methods to maintain and invest in public infrastructure.
• Mental health and justice: State and local policies related to behavioral health and criminal justice, and crisis response and diversion.
• Plastics: Evidence-based solutions for addressing plastic pollution and improving waste management in states.
• Public health data improvement: Policies and practices for more timely, efficient, and consistent data reporting, essential to improving and saving lives.
• Public sector retirement systems: Ways to ensure public sector retirement systems are financially sound for current and future workers, retirees, and taxpayers.
• State fiscal policy: State fiscal policies, emerging risks to state budgets, and ways to create budget sustainability in the long term.
• Substance use prevention and treatment: Opioid use disorder treatment and sustainable behavioral health financing.
• Suicide risk reduction: Screening and care mechanisms to help reduce suicide deaths in the U.S.
• U.S. conservation: Commonsense solutions that address the impacts of a changing environment on nature and communities.