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Advocacy Day Participant Guide

What to bring, how Hill meetings are scheduled, and how to use NANA's leave-behind on Advocacy Day.

Simone Radcliffe

Director of Public Policy, NANA

Farah Qureshi-Lindgren

Senior Policy Manager, NANA

4 min read
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The Advocacy Day Participant Guide walks first-time and returning attendees through everything between registering and walking into a Hill office: what to bring, how NANA's policy team builds the day's meeting schedule, and how to use the one-page leave-behind that accompanies every visit.

Written by Director of Public Policy Simone Radcliffe and Senior Policy Manager Farah Qureshi-Lindgren, the guide explains why registration closes a month ahead of the event, how meetings are grouped by state delegation so members from the same district travel together, and what to say when a staffer asks a follow-up question the visitor can't answer. It closes with a packing checklist and a short section on what happens after the day ends.

Published by NANA's research team as part of the guide series.

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