Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Opening Remarks
Amanda Litman Co-founder & Executive Director, Run for Something Action Fund
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Executive Director, The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
Pete Davis Co-founder & Executive Director, The Democracy Policy Network (DPN)
Keynotes
Senator Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senate
Esther Agbaje, State Representative, MN House of Representatives
Arekia Benentt-Scott, Mississippi Votes, Executive Director
0:00 Pete Davis Co-founder & Executive Director, The Democracy Policy Network (DPN)
3:50 Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Executive Director, The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
7:09 Amanda Litman Co-founder & Executive Director, Run for Something Action Fund
10:49 Senator Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senate
20:06 Esther Agbaje, State Representative, MN House of Representatives
31:57 Arekia Benentt-Scott, Mississippi Votes, Executive Director
Statehouse Futures (www.statehousefutures.org) is an annual gathering that features panels on transformative policies your fellow leaders plan to push next year and workshops on approaches to help you raise up big ideas in your state — from maximizing voter participation to tackling monopoly power, protecting reproductive rights to promoting non-carceral first responders, creating green buildings to building social housing, running for office to protecting direct democracy and more. The event is co-hosted by the Democracy Policy Network, the Run for Something Action Fund, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
Opening Remarks
Amanda Litman Co-founder & Executive Director, Run for Something Action Fund
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Executive Director, The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
Pete Davis Co-founder & Executive Director, The Democracy Policy Network (DPN)
Keynotes
Senator Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senate
Esther Agbaje, State Representative, MN House of Representatives
Arekia Benentt-Scott, Mississippi Votes, Executive Director
0:00 Pete Davis Co-founder & Executive Director, The Democracy Policy Network (DPN)
3:50 Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Executive Director, The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
7:09 Amanda Litman Co-founder & Executive Director, Run for Something Action Fund
10:49 Senator Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senate
20:06 Esther Agbaje, State Representative, MN House of Representatives
31:57 Arekia Benentt-Scott, Mississippi Votes, Executive Director
Statehouse Futures (www.statehousefutures.org) is an annual gathering that features panels on transformative policies your fellow leaders plan to push next year and workshops on approaches to help you raise up big ideas in your state — from maximizing voter participation to tackling monopoly power, protecting reproductive rights to promoting non-carceral first responders, creating green buildings to building social housing, running for office to protecting direct democracy and more. The event is co-hosted by the Democracy Policy Network, the Run for Something Action Fund, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
