Equity Uprise · the policy record

Three policy pushes.
Two states. Two years.

The November 2024 memorandum predates the fellowship. The Urban Leadership Fellowship is a separate program — it does not endorse, sponsor or partner with Equity Uprise.

3policy pushes across 2024 and 2025
2addressed to sitting officials: a governor, a state rep
$12.6Mthe pilot my cohort costed, line by line
325Docket 516 filings archived and explained

Push one · alone

Sole author · November 29, 2024

Memorandum to Governor Brian Kemp

Opposing mandatory DNA collection from misdemeanor offenders.

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Push two · Georgia

Urban Leadership Fellowship · Atlanta, Georgia · 2025

A Policy Blueprint for Healthy School Meals in Georgia

With Senge Ngalame, Josh Thomas and Brandon Isome. To Rep. Eric Bell II. My section: “Scientific Mechanisms of Harm: How Additives Affect the Body.”

The deck, as delivered.
PilotTwenty schools, $12.6M.
Vendors$3.75 per meal, cost-neutral; no Red #3, Yellow #6 or BHA/BHT.
CountiesClayton against Thomas.

Sourced to ACS 2023, USDA Economic Research Service, the Environmental Working Group’s 2025 food bill tracker, the Georgia Hunger Study 2023, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Push three · Connecticut

Connecticut Siting Council · Docket No. 516 and the 516R remand · 2023–2026

The public record, made readable

The docket325 filings, each source-linked.
How it endedDenied 5–3, October 16, 2025. Appeal rejected and Docket 516R closed, February 5, 2026.

Outcome sourced to CT Mirror, October 16, 2025 and CT Mirror, February 5, 2026.

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