2024: A Year in Review
As 2024 draws to a close, we at the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) wanted to take the time to reflect on our accomplishments this year. This included but was not limited to the following:
- Announcing the grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for our State Legislative Effectiveness Initiative.
- Announcing the recipients of our 2024-2025 small grant awards.
- Introducing new members of our Center Affiliate teams, including Andrew Ballard, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Michael Kistner, Emily Cottle Ommundsen, and Arjun Vishwanath.
- Introducing two new post-doctoral fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year: Amy Meli and Connor Halloran Phillips.
- Introducing new members of our Board of Advisors: Brody Mullins, Daniel Stid, and Danielle Thomsen.
- Hosting our 6th Annual Research Conference, which included recognizing the recipients of our Annual Best Publication on Effective Lawmaking award.
- Presenting our latest entries in our Conversations with Lawmakers series with interviews with U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Don Bacon, and Mark Takano, and West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw.
- Hosting the presentation “Effective Lawmaking in Virginia: Past, Present, and Future” as part of the Batten Hour series.
- Presenting our work to newly-elected members of the Michigan State Legislature as part of Michigan State University’s Legislative Leadership Program.
- Presenting our work at the conference of the Patterns of Legislative Effectiveness (POLE) Project.
- Presenting our work at a panel at the annual American Political Science Association (APSA) conference.
- Presenting our work at a webinar for the Regional Reporters Association.
- Presenting our work to the LEGIS Congressional Fellowship program at the Brookings Institution.
- Generating and sharing new insights through the CEL Working Paper Series.
For more information, also see the Center for Effective Lawmaking Annual Report for 2024.
As always, we would like to thank all of you who have supported us over the years; all of this would not have been possible without you and we look forward to continuing these ventures in 2025.
Please consider including the Center in your charitable giving this year; go here and select the CEL as your ‘Designation.’
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
