Meet our new Advisory Board Member: Danielle Thomsen The Center for Effective Lawmaking is excited to welcome Danielle Thomsen to our Board of Advisors.Thomsen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and a CEL Faculty Affiliate. Her research focuses on American politics, the U.S. Congress, and gender and politics. Her first book, Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates, shows that ideological moderates are less likely to run for and remain in Congress than those at the extremes, further…

Meet our new Advisory Board Member: Daniel Stid The Center for Effective Lawmaking is excited to welcome Daniel Stid to our Board of Advisors. Mr. Stid is the Executive Director of Lyceum Labs. He previously served as the founding director of the Hewlett Foundation’s U.S. Democracy Program. From 2013-22, he led $180 million in grantmaking to shore up U.S. democracy in a time of polarization. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at The Bridgespan Group, where he advised nonprofit, foundation, and government leaders; a management consultant with The…

Meet our new Advisory Board Member: Brody Mullins The Center for Effective Lawmaking is excited to welcome Brody Mullins to our Board of Advisors.Mr. Mullins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took over Big Government, which details how corporate influence has grown in Washington since the 1970s. In nearly two decades as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he wrote ground-breaking stories about the intersection of business and politics, exposing scandals that prompted new…