December 10th 2019
Events for January-March 2020:
- There’s a (free!) Science Policy in NYC Workshop being held on January 11th – link here
- We’re hosting another Voter Registration Drive the week of February 3rd (party enrollment for the 2020 primaries is February 14) – I’m contacting building/event staff to reserve space in front of the cafeteria, preferably on Wednesday 2/5.
- We’re planning 3 webinar viewing parties next semester, specific dates TBA. Let me know if there are any specific dates/times that work for you!
On-going efforts:
- Our Science Policy blog is in the works! We’re hoping to have it up and running by next semester, and I’ll start asking for contributors soon after.
- I’m in contact with the Government Affairs department to coordinate an Invite Your Representatives Day – details to come as soon as I have them.
- I’m working with the Office of Career Services to convince them to host trainees for the AAAS CASE workshop, but that will probably have to wait until next year.
November 13th 2019
- I created a Google calendar that contains events for our monthly meetings and events, as well as events from: our Community Board, City Council, 500 Women Scientists, Manhattan Young Democrats, and more! If you have requests, let me know and I can add them as well.
- We’re going to try and use Slack more often – our channel is sinai-policy.slack.com, here’s the invite link.
- We want to register as a chapter of the National Science Policy Network (NSPN), but we need 3 registered members first. Membership is $20 for students and postdocs, let me know if you’re interested and we can hopefully register our group soon. This will allow us to apply for microgrants, attend workshops, and coordinate with other SciPol groups in the city.
- Next semester we plan to host: a voter registration drive before the 2020 primaries (the week of February 3rd), webinar viewing parties in Feb/April/June, and work with Ellie Schmelzer to invite someone for the GSCS dinners. I will send out a list of potential webinar topics in the next month, and we can vote on our favorites at our next meeting!
- Lastly, we want to create a blog to allow the opportunity to practice our writing. The posts can be anything from policy memos and op-eds to two-paragraph posts explaining a cool paper you read or why a recent policy change makes you mad. The sky’s the limit! I’ll make the website and send out the information via email/Slack.
