Meet Pew Experts at the NCSL Legislative Summit
Indianapolis 2023
Meet with Pew experts during the NCSL Legislative Summit. Our experts have researched a range of policy areas, including state fiscal policy, housing policy initiatives, weather-related disaster resilience, 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 Booth 603 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, guardianship
Darcy White
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, consumer debt, eviction, guardianship
Charlotte Stewart
Civil courts, legal services and alternatives, legal technology, consumer debt, eviction
Lester Bird
Debt collection, eviction, foreclosure, state policies that govern civil legal systems, justice system technologies
Conservation and environment
Marcia Argust
U.S. parks, migration corridors, public lands
Zach Bartscherer
Flood and hazard resilience and offshore wind, EV fleet, transmission grid modernization
Kristiane Huber
Flood and hazard resilience
Yaron Miller
Offshore wind, EV fleet, transmission grid modernization
Mathew Sanders
Flood and hazard resilience
Matt Skroch
Terrestrial connectivity
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
Lauren Williams
Public lands
Expanding broadband access
Kathryn de Wit
Using research and data to expand broadband access
Colby Humphrey
Expanding broadband access and addressing affordability challenges
Jake Varn
Trends in state activities, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, technical assistance to states
Housing policy initiative
Gabriel Kravitz
Increasing the supply of lower-cost forms of housing, improving access to small mortgages, and making alternative arrangements to purchase a home safely
Public health data improvement
Margaret Arnesen
Public health data systems and policies
Logan Dennis
Public health data systems and policies
Devon Genua
Public health data systems and policies
Public safety and mental health emergency response
Kati Habert
State and local policies at the intersection of behavioral health and criminal justice, with a focus on crisis and diversion
Erika Parks
Juvenile justice, jails
Ruth Rosenthal
Juvenile justice
Julie Wertheimer
Crisis response and diversion, jails, violence
Connie Utada
Adult sentencing and corrections, community supervision
Retirement savings
John Scott
State and federal policies to increase savings and reduce barriers for small business retirement plans
State fiscal policies and budgets
Colin Foard
State spending and budgeting on natural disasters
Page Forrest
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends
Sheanna Gomes
State fiscal health work, rainy day funds, long-term budget assessments, budget stress tests, 50-state assessment on fiscal sustainability
Peter Muller
Federal aid to states and natural disaster budgeting
Chaaron Pearson
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives and regulatory improvement
Justin Theal
Fiscal 50: State fiscal and economic trends
Rebecca Thiess
Federal aid to states
Logan Timmerhoff
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives
Alison Wakefield
Economic development strategies, including tax incentives
Strengthening public sector retirement systems
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
Substance use treatment
Alexandra Duncan
Opioid use disorder treatment in the criminal legal system
Opioid use disorder treatment, telehealth policies, lifesaving strategies
Andrew Whitacre
Behavioral health sustainable financing, technical assistance
Victoria Yastishock
Using metrics to assess opioid use disorder treatment, technical assistance
Suicide risk reduction
Kristen Mizzi Angelone
Evidence-based screening tools to assess suicide risk, strategies for hospitals and health systems to expand their suicide prevention interventions
