This page was updated on July 28, 2022, to update available experts.
Meet with Pew experts during this year’s National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit. Our experts have researched a range of policy areas, including state fiscal policy, economic development strategies, evidence-based policymaking, consumer and family finances, natural disaster assistance, public safety and the courts, and health policy. 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 (721) or sign up here to arrange a one-on-one meeting regarding any of the topics below.
Erika Rickard
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, legal technology, consumer debt, eviction, guardianship
Natasha Khwaja
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, consumer debt, eviction, guardianship
Charlotte Stewart
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, legal technology, consumer debt, eviction
Marcia Argust
U.S. parks, migration corridors, public lands
Erin Fleck
Conservation and environmental issues
Ken Rait
Bureau of Land Management issues, Alaska
John Seebach
National forests, national monuments, federal public lands legislation
Brett Swift
U.S. rivers and dam removal, federal wild and scenic legislation
David Ellenberger
Migration corridors
Mathew Sanders
Flood and hazard resilience
Sylvia Troost
Coastal blue carbon management strategies in state climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, ways states can leverage the federal Coastal Zone Management Act in support of conservation and resilience goals
Gabriel Kravitz
Small-dollar loans such as payday and installment loans, market practices in auto title lending, borrower preferences, and state policy responses
Chaaron Pearson
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives and regulatory improvement
Alison Wakefield
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives
Sara Dube
Using research and evidence in state budgeting and policymaking
Kathryn de Wit
National broadband trends, federal broadband policy, strategic partnerships
Anna Read
State broadband programs, broadband affordability, broadband research, emerging needs
Jake Varn
Trends in state activities, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, technical assistance to states
Rachel Siegel
Single-family housing and home financing including mortgages, use of alternative arrangements to purchase a home (such as rent-to-own, land contracts, and unique challenges for financing mobile and manufactured homes)
Lilly Kan
Public health data systems and policies
Margaret Arnesen
Public health data systems and policies
Kati Habert
State and local policies at the intersection of behavioral health and criminal justice, with a focus on crisis and diversion
Jake Horowitz
State policies related to sentencing and corrections, lethal violence, and theft
Ruth Rosenthal
Juvenile justice
Connie Utada
Adult sentencing and corrections, community supervision
Tracy Velázquez
Criminal justice and public safety; behavioral health and drug trends; policy research on community supervision, jails, and juvenile justice
Julie Wertheimer
Crisis response and diversion, jails, violence
John Scott
State and federal policies to increase savings and reduce barriers for small business retirement plans
Joanna Biernacka-Lievestro
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends
Madalyn Bryant
State spending and budgeting on natural disasters
Jeff Chapman
State fiscal and economic policies, long-term fiscal planning, tax incentives, economic development strategies
Colin Foard
State spending and budgeting on natural disasters
Melissa Maynard
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends
Peter Muller
Federal aid to states
Angela Oh
State fiscal policies, budget stress-testing, long-term budgeting
Justin Theal
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends
Rebecca Thiess
Federal aid to states
David Draine
Data-driven research and technical assistance to help lawmakers strengthen public retirement systems
Corryn Hall
Data-driven research and technical assistance to help lawmakers strengthen public retirement systems
Alexandra Duncan
Opioid use disorder treatment in the criminal legal system
Frances McGaffey
Substance use disorder data and metrics, opioid treatment program regulations
Andrew Whitacre
Sustainable financing for behavioral health, technical assistance
Kristen Mizzi Angelone
Evidence-based screening tools to assess suicide risk, strategies for hospitals and health systems to expand their suicide prevention interventions