People, Place, and Platform—An Opportunity-Driven Approach to Legislative Advocacy
eLearning
Description
Opportunity-driven advocacy considers people, place, and platforms. Learn how to best understand and address the needs of state and local legislators, staffers, community organizers, and influencers and engage with or create library supporters—highlighting the library as an invaluable resource that gains community support and funding dollars.
Speaker
Kathleen McEvoy is a communications expert who has worked with libraries and content/technology providers for more than 19 years. Kathleen has created strategies to address legislation in multiple U.S. states meeting directly with state executives and legislators about book banning, criminalization, and data security. Kathleen is on the executive board of the American Library Association’s United for Libraries division and a member of its Intellectual Freedom, Public Policy, and Advocacy Committee. She is the editor of the Seeing the Whole Board column in the academic journal Against the Grain and has keynoted on the legislative and policy issues affecting libraries.
About Learning Live
United for Libraries Learning Live sessions takes place on the second Tuesday of each month* at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Each month’s session will cover a hot topic of interest to Trustees, Friends and/or Foundations, followed by Q&A and/or discussions. Sessions are open to all personal members of United for Libraries and those with statewide access.
*Learning Live is not held in August due to United for Libraries Virtual: Trustees, Friends, Foundations.
How to Register
United for Libraries Personal Members & Statewide Partners
United for Libraries Personal Members
Statewide Partners (MA, MD, MI, MN, ND, NE, OR, SC, and VA)
Non-Members
Non-members may purchase a one-year subscription to Learning Live, which includes live attendance and on-demand access to 11 webinars over a 12-month period* beginning with the month of purchase.
Some Learning Live sessions are available for standalone purchase.
