Sarah Maher is a fellow with the Idaho Science and Technology Fellowship, a nonpartisan program that provides outstanding scientists, social scientists and engineers the opportunity to learn firsthand about policymaking through a yearlong...

A New Mexico lawmaker talks about the natural beauty, history and military significance of his district, which includes White Sands National Park and lies near Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range.

Sarah Anderson is a fellow with the Missouri Science and Technology (MOST) Policy Initiative, an independent nonprofit providing nonpartisan research for Missouri legislators.

Elia La is a food scientist with the California Council on Science and Technology, the nation’s longest-running state science policy fellowship program.

Keira Alkema is the deputy secretary of the Alaska Senate.

NCSL talks with Celia Smits, Princeton-trained molecular biologist who works in the New Jersey Legislature as part of the Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship.