Learn How to Lobby and Speak with Representatives at MaryPIRG’s Lobbying Training!

Sunday at 3pm in the Charles Carroll of the Stamp Student Union

MaryPIRG will be hosting a lobbying training. We will be going to Annapolis the following day to lobby our state representatives on bills that are pertinent to some of the campaigns we are working on. This lobbying training will give students the opportunity to learn from the State Director of MarylandPIRG, Emily Scarr, on how to lobby and speak with representatives on the issues they care about.

Emily Scarr will be conducting the lobbying training at the MaryPIRG chapter meeting from 3 - 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Scarr is the Maryland state director of PIRG and regularly gives the organization the chance to talk with our Maryland representatives. Scarr’s lecture will primarily be on how to be an effective public interest lobbyist: the skill, key principles, and tips/best practices with examples and illustrations from [her] work.

MaryPIRG is a grassroots non-partisan public interest group, currently tackling issues regarding the environment, the cost of higher education, big money in politics, hunger and homelessness, protecting public health, and more! The organization is entirely run by students, but has a network of professionals, such as lawyers, organizers, and politicians, who help us fight for the public interest against special interests. MaryPIRG has been on campus on campus for 30 years now working on the issues students care about!