This conversation will highlight the profound influence that community advocates can have on their legislators in affecting policy change.

What you'll learn:

• Pell Grant’s role in ensuring equity and access to higher education

• Student leaders will highlight resources to successfully build a coalition of stakeholders and host your own week of action to influence your state’s congressional delegation into action.

What you'll get:

• Double the Pell advocacy toolkit to launch a successful Double the Pell advocacy campaign on your campus and across your state.

Speaker:

Michele Streeter - senior policy analyst at The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). Lauren Valles - Fund the UC campaign chair, UCLA student and a leading voice in the campaign to Double the Pell, will moderate this discussion.