Jenna Bannon serves as associate director in the Children and Families Program. She manages multiple grants in early childhood and child welfare and co-leads the interdisciplinary work on child and family policy. Bannon comes to NCSL with more...

Kelsie George is a senior policy specialist with the NCSL Health Program, specializing in health workforce policy issues. Her work with state legislators, legislative staff and other partners includes conducting legislative research, writing...

As a policy specialist with the Legislative Staff Services Program, Megan McClure supports the Leadership Staff Professional Association, the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society and the NCSL Young and New Professionals...

NCSL talks with South Dakota Sen. Lee Schoenbeck about the ways the Legislature has changed since he began work there as an intern in the 1970s.

As a senior policy specialist for NCSL’s Children and Families Program, Jill Yordy researches public policy related to child and family well-being. Yordy comes to NCSL with more than eight years of experience in public policy research,...

As a tribal working group specialist, Tansey Moore provides staff lead support to the Nuclear Energy Tribal Working Group by planning and facilitating meetings to address nuclear energy issues as it relates to tribal nations. Moore has more...

In her role as senior program coordinator, Melanie Horton supports NCSL's Environment Program as well as several state and tribal working groups, which NCSL supports through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. Horton...

As a program principal in the Education Program, Molly Gold focuses on teacher, school leader, and school governance policy. Prior to joining NCSL, Gold worked as a high school English teacher and department chair and as an analyst with the...

As director of NCSL’s Health Program, Tahra Johnson oversees the public health and maternal and child health projects and research at NCSL. Johnson has been with NCSL for more than seven years and has several additional years of experience...

As director of the Environment, Energy and Transportation program at NCSL, Jim Reed oversees the collaborative efforts of 15 outstanding colleagues in state legislative bill tracking and analysis, policy research and writing, grant project...

In his role as a policy analyst, Landon Jacquinot researches state policy on minimum wage, occupational licensing, and workforce development. Jacquinot comes to NCSL with experience working with and around state legislatures as a policy and...

Asthma is a serious chronic disease impacting quality of life and health outcomes for about 6 million children in the U.S. While childhood asthma can be effectively managed for most kids, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates...

Imagine you are a judge hearing a case. The Raptor Commission has awarded a cash grant to the Raptor Education Association. Unfortunately for the association, the commission did not have a quorum when it voted to award the grant.

Patrick O’Donnell, 73, is retiring after 45 years as Nebraska Legislature's clerk. 

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol : NDAA Passes House—What's in, What's Out, REAL ID Compliance Pushed to 2025, and more.

NCSL talks with Sen. Ken Horn and Rep. Rodney Wakeman about Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest year-round holiday store, which is located in their Michigan legislative districts.

Historian Peverill Squire, one of the nation’s foremost scholars on state legislatures, sits down with Tim Storey to discuss the history of legislatures, how they’ve changed over the centuries and the resources they need to deal with...

Sunny Deye is an associate director in NCSL’s Education Program and serves as the liaison to her home state of Oregon. Deye leads the postsecondary education team in tracking and analyzing legislation in all 50 states, publishing state...

As a project manager in NCSL’s Fiscal Affairs Program, Emily Maher focuses on state budgets, intergovernmental relations and economic development policy. She also staffs NCSL’s Labor and Economic Development Committee. Prior...

Sarah Brown is the director of the Criminal and Civil Justice Program (CCJ) at NCSL. As the director, she oversees all of NCSL’s criminal and civil justice work, with specific expertise in juvenile justice. Brown has been with NCSL for 20...

As a policy specialist with the Center for Legislative Strengthening, Emily Ronco researches, tracks and analyzes issues around legislator compensation, demographics and term limits. She also serves as the South Carolina state liaison....

Ben Williams covers redistricting, alternative voting systems and partisan composition of legislatures as part of NCSL’s Elections and Redistricting Program. Previously, Williams worked as a public policy researcher at Princeton University....

As a program principal in NCSL’s Legislative Staff Services Program, Holly South supports the American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries, one of NCSL’s nine professional staff associations. She also administers the...

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...