CE Meeting Minutes - 27 October 2024 112th Senate Committee on Civic Engagement Date: 10/27/2024 Time: 12:00-12:25pm Location: Zoom Present: Angela Xiong (Committee Chair), Ethan Edelstein, Prisha Agrawal, Lucy Landry, Sumire Sumi Absent (Excused): Absent (Unexcused): Yonatanne Desta, Cynthia Hidalgo-Sanchez Visitors: Brendon Davis (Science Policy and Diplomacy Group), Lauren Hesse (Science Policy and Diplomacy Group) Meeting began at 12:03pm. ● Brendon Davis ○ VP of Science Policy for the Science Policy and Diplomacy Group ○ Discussion of the past work of the group ■ Annual Hill Day - advocacy in DC for different projects (COVID ended this, but it was revived last year) ● STEM student immigration ● Alternative protein farming choices ● Women’s health research (led by Lauren Hesse) ■ Writing projects, workshops ■ Handouts and emails to congressional offices ○ Traditionally run by graduate students and postdocs ■ How could we incorporate undergraduate students more? ● Give SGA the roadmap and help plan with the Hill Day? ● Choosing general initiatives applicable to undergrads to create a larger Hill Day? ● Lauren Hesse ○ Shared WHRA Hill Day One Pager CE Meeting Minutes - 27 October 2024 ■ Everything works fast on the Hill ● Staffers and congressional offices are busy all the time and meetings are short; attention must be fought for ■ One way to do this is to make it personal to gain attention ● “Everyone has had a woman in their life that has been overlooked…” ○ Starting conversations organically, then opening it up to policy recommendations ■ Offices may tell you that some things that cannot be changed ○ We must send lots of emails and hope that they have availability on the same days ○ Willing to share their funding processes ● Brendon Davis - Does the committee have a vision for what to advocate for? ○ Angela Xiong - National advocacy day, Maryland general assembly ■ Health policy, science policy ● More bipartisan, students are interested in these fields at Hopkins ● Interested in exploring the intersection of science and policy ■ SGA can provide some funding ■ This year the committee would like to work Hesse and Davis ● More volunteers would be needed for our own full, independent advocacy day, so this may not be possible this year ● Brendon Davis - Recommends that the committee choose a specific initiative ○ For example, this year’s Hill Day will focus on language appropriations ○ Lauren Hesse - one or two of the committee/SGA members should work on each of the initiatives we choose ● Angela Xiong - what does planning for Hill Day look like? ○ Brendon Davis - big groups meetings with all three initiatives once a month ■ Big training session closer to Hill Day ■ Smaller, more frequent group meetings for individual initiatives ○ Lauren Hesse - discussion on group activities, embassy visits ● Brendon Davis - help with the budget can be given, would be great to get more people involved ● Prisha Agrawal - Let’s open this up to SGA as a volunteering opportunity; see who would want to help especially since this is such a small committee ● Brendon Davis - Hill Day is a large commitment ○ Research, writing, and preparation goes into this ■ Those interested must keep dates open in march ■ A big commitment, but it's worth it ○ Most meetings will be on Zoom until the large training day ■ This is because many people from different campuses will be joining ● Davis and Hesse will continue to keep in touch with and update Angela Xiong Meeting ended at 12:25pm.
Judiciary Meeting — Minutes (10/27/24)
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