Focus on the PA Legislature
Our Fellows provide state legislators and Commissions with rigorous, nonpartisan science and technology policy research and analysis to inform policymaking. Fellow advice is critical as Pennsylvania has the nation’s largest, full-time legislature, but few members or staff have STEM backgrounds. Fellows support the increasingly complex policy-making arena, resulting in more evidence-based policy, and bolstering the commonwealth’s resilience in addressing our collective challenges.
Support Evidence-Based Policy
Fellows serve a one-year term, beginning each fall, and work alongside policy makers to evaluate complex scientific and technical issues and interpret data. Fellows do not lobby for a particular legislative outcome, but provide non-partisan, objective information to enable policymakers to make evidence-based decisions.
Recruiting & Placement
Fellows are placed in a variety of host offices. We are currently recruiting for a Fellow to be placed with the Joint State Government Commission, the bicameral, bipartisan research agency of the PA General Assembly focusing on AI. Future fellows will be placed with the Center for Rural PA, a bicameral, bipartisan research agency focused on rural issues, the House Health Committee, to support health legislation, and the House Communications & Technology Committee, to support technology-related legislation.