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Sanam Hooshidary

As a legislative specialist, Sanam Hooshidary works on federal budget process, federal and state revenues and taxes, banking, financial technology and digital currencies, internet and technology, as well as consumer and financial services. Prior...

Benjamin Nasta

As a senior legislative director, Ben Nasta leads legislative advocacy and engagement strategies for NCSL’s Transportation and Natural Resources, Energy and Environment committees. Nasta comes to NCSL with nearly 10 years of experience in...

Megan Bland

Megan Bland is the associate legislative director for the Natural Resources, Energy and Environment Committee and the Transportation Committee. Before joining NCSL, she worked as a policy analyst for the Council Oak, a small women-owned public...

Louise McGinty

Louise McGinty supports NCSL’s Washington, D.C.,-based staff, specifically the standing committees and task forces. McGinty comes to NSCL with experience in nonprofit events and fundraising, project management, relationship building,...

Emily Katz

Emily Katz is the associate legislative director for education and human services on NCSL’s state-federal affairs team, where she covers federal early childhood, K-12 education and social services policy. Prior to NCSL, she worked in policy...

Susan Frederick

As NCSL’s senior federal affairs counsel, Susan Parnas Frederick advocates for states before Congress and the administration on criminal and civil justice, cybersecurity, elections and immigration enforcement issues. Parnas Frederick has...

Nicole Ezeh

Nicole Ezeh supports the Law, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Standing Committee as a legislative director. Previously, Ezeh supported human trafficking victim services providers in the state of Maryland at its federally recognized state...

Austin Reid

As federal affairs advisor, Austin Reid oversees NCSL’s federal education policy work, which includes staffing the NCSL Standing Committee on Education and representing NCSL’s education interests before Congress and the...

Lauren Kallins

As the senior legislative director for Health and Human Services Policy, Lauren Kallins is the lead staff person in NCSL’s D.C. office working on state-federal HHS policy. Kallins has more than 20 years of experience lobbying on HHS issues,...

Brian Wanko

Brian Wanko focuses on the federal budget process, public finance, income taxes, pensions, post-employment benefits and federal and state revenues and taxes. He comes to NCSL with experience in federal administration and congressional...
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