Reflections from the Convergence Collaborative on Supports for Working Families
Hosted by Convergence Center for Policy Resolution at the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy
Date/Time: February 19th, 2025, 5:00 – 6:30 PM ET
Location: McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
125 E St NW, Washington, DC 20001
With the new Congress and Administration, there are many opportunities and challenges for a policy agenda that can help working families flourish. In our politically divided environment, it is critical to build an agenda with broad-based support.
The Convergence Collaborative on Supports for Working Families represents the most ideologically and organizationally diverse group of family policy leaders in recent memory, akin to the Congressionally-created National Commission on Children in 1989. The Collaborative met together for a year and released its consensus report in spring of 2024.
On February 19th, join McCourt to learn about the five areas for supporting family flourishing this year. Several Collaborative members, including Indivar Dutta-Gupta (Doris Duke Distinguished Visiting Fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University), will join the group’s facilitator David Fairman (Consensus Building Institute) and the group’s director Abby McCloskey (McCloskey Policy LLC) to discuss how needed change for families can happen. The event will also include remarks from Neil Bradley (U.S. Chamber) who serves on the Convergence Board and on the Advisory Board for the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and Mariah Levison Convergence CEO and President.
Panelists
- Charles Aull, Executive Director, Kentucky Chamber Center for Policy and Research
- Chris Griswold, Policy Director, American Compass
- Lina Guzman, Chief Strategy Officer & Director of Hispanic Institute, Child Trends
- Josh McCabe, Director of Social Policy, Niskanen Center
- Wakisha Newton, Childcare Organizer and State Lead, Family Values @ Work
