James Privette As a legislative specialist, James Privette supports a broad array of issues within the Budgets and Revenue and the Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce standing committees. Privette comes to NCSL with... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
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... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Nicole Ezeh Nicole Ezeh supports the Law, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Standing Committee as a legislative specialist. Previously, Ezeh supported human trafficking victim services providers in the state of Maryland at its federally recognized... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Kristen Hildreth As senior legislative director for NCSL’s Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee, Kristen Hildreth leads NCSL’s advocacy work on environment and natural resources issues before Congress and the administration. Previously,... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Jon Jukuri Jon Jukuri serves as a federal affairs advisor in NCSL’s State-Federal Government Relations Division and is a development manager in NCSL’s Foundation for State Legislatures, working out of the Washington, D.C., office. He also serves... Directories, Staff Directory, Foundation for State Legislatures, State-Federal Affairs
Austin Reid As senior legislative director for education policy, 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... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Lauren Kallins As the 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,... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
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... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Emily Katz As a legislative specialist, Emily Katz works on federal education, health and human services policies that are of interest to states. Katz comes to NCSL with experience in policy research on school climate, school health, social-emotional... Staff Directory, State-Federal Affairs
Molly Ramsdell Molly Ramsdell is director of NCSL’s Washington, D.C., office and oversees the State-Federal Affairs Division. She joined NCSL in 1996 and has served as staff liaison for a number of NCSL’s Standing Committees, including... Staff Directory, Executive Management Team, State-Federal Affairs