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Pre-Session Trainings for State Legislators

A new legislative session is just around the corner for many legislators. Here are trainings created with you in mind:
* TODAY, 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT: Funding Our Futures: Tax Policy Essentials for State Legislators ([link removed])
* Monday, November 17, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT: Repro State Learning Lab ([link removed]) (focused on preparing for the 2026 legislative session)
* Tuesday, November 18, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT: Make Policy Click: Vertical Video Training for Legislators ([link removed])
* Tuesday, November 18, 2 pm ET / 11 am PT: Tackle Box: Aquaculture Policy Strategy Session ([link removed])
* Thursday, November 20, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT: Defending Fair Maps: Legislative Briefing on Mid-Decade Redistricting ([link removed])


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With historic overfishing, increasing water pollution, and rapid deregulation at the federal level, our oceans and coastal communities are under tremendous strain in the face of climate change. SiX, in partnership with Don’t Cage Our Ocean, has curated the State Policy Tackle Box ([link removed]) .

Rich with the aquaculture research and state policies to help state legislators and advocates safeguard oceans from harmful industrial finfish farming, the Tackle Box ([link removed]) helps legislators meet the moment. This resource is for all state legislators in the 2026 session who want to support our oceans and our coastal communities, learn from the stewardship of Indigenous communities, and advocate for sustainable fishing and working waterfronts.

State legislators and legislative staff can also join us for a strategy session ([link removed]) on November 18th at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT to discuss how to use this resource and more.
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SiX Welcomes our New Senior VP of Development,

Micah Blaise

Please join us in welcoming Micah Blaise, SiX’s new Senior Vice President of Development! Micah brings over 15 years of grassroots organizing and progressive fundraising to the role. She most recently led development at Neighborhood Funders Group and previously helped power fundraising at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Care in Action. Earlier, she built resource organizing at Southerners on New Ground, organized abortion clinic defense in her home state of South Carolina, and co-founded and directed an alternative-to-incarceration program for girls and trans youth. Micah’s approach is rooted in local movements for justice—and we’re thrilled to have her on the team!

Updates to Protecting Immigrant Communities:

A Toolkit for State Action
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Have you seen the newest updates to our legislator toolkit, Protecting Immigrant Communities: A Toolkit for State Action ([link removed]) ? Immigrants are part of every community—as neighbors, small business leaders, food workers, caregivers, and fellow taxpayers contributing billions in taxes each year.

With escalating attacks on immigrants from the Trump administration, it is only more urgent that state legislators and advocates push back with policies that ensure dignity, safety, and opportunity for all.

In addition to worker protections, the toolkit outlines policy, messaging, and constituent services tools to protect immigrant workers in your district and state.
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Saving Mothers, Saving Families: Mississippi’s Maternal Health Crisis
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At SiX, we proudly build a bridge between state and national reproductive rights advocacy. One glimpse into that work is Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council (RFLC) member Mississippi Representative Zakiya Summers’ public hearing, "Saving Mothers, Saving Families: Mississippi's Maternal Health Crisis,” hosted by the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus in late October. This hearing built upon the 2025 Black Maternal Health Legislator Convening in Richmond, VA, led by RFLC member Virginia Delegate Candi Mundon King and SIX's ongoing work with multiple state Black Maternal Health Caucuses.

U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, who has spearheaded Momnibus legislation at the federal level, also created a video in support of Representative Summers’ state legislative history.

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106 Lawmakers Stand Up for the Northeast’s Food System
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SiX’s Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP) Northeast organizing initiative took its first big step: 106 Northeastern legislators signed on to a letter pushing back on federal moves that harm the region’s food system, including cuts to key farm programs, ICE activity on farms that targets workers, and USDA changes that pull resources from the Northeast. This action built momentum for joint, cross-state work and showed how state legislators are stepping forward to lead their communities impacted by dangerous federal actions.
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State legislators, if you’d like to go deeper into SiX’s issue areas, join our legislator cohorts: the Economic Power Project ([link removed]) , the Cohort for Rural Opportunity ([link removed]) and Prosperity, and the Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council! ([link removed])

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