With a closely divided U.S. Senate, states and localities remain essential for policies that advance civil rights, immigrant rights, worker rights, and environmental sustainability.

Not only are states and localities critical to ensure successful implementation of federal policy, power-building and policy change at the state level is often a prerequisite to building Congressional coalitions for successful legislation.

Join us for a timely conversation, moderated by Professor Janelle Wong at the University of Maryland, and nationally renowned scholars of federalism and citizenship rights.