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Lessons Learned: Legislative Staff and the Pandemic | OAS Episode 209
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Lessons Learned: Legislative Staff and the Pandemic | OAS Episode 209

Three state legislative staff leaders joined the podcast to talk about the long-term effects of the pandemic and how their institutions coped with the emergency.

NCSL Podcasts · Sabrina Lewellen, Jay Hartz, Ed Smith, Anne Sappenfield

May 5, 202433m 54s

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Show Notes

This podcast kicks off Legislative Staff Week, an annual NCSL effort to focus on legislative staff. This episode is part of three-podcast services focused on legislative staff that will roll out over the next couple of months.

Our guests include Sabrina Lewellen, assistant secretary of the Arkansas Senate and the current NCSL staff chair; Anne Sappenfield, director of the Wisconsin Legislative Council; and Jay Hartz, director of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. All three joined to talk about the long-term effects of the pandemic and how their institutions coped with the emergency.

They talked about how their institutions were affected, some of the innovations staff devised to cope with the emergency and some of the lasting changes resulting from the pandemic. There was even discussion of how a stack of table, a laptop and a camera helped ensure transparent government.

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