On Thursday, July 20, Partnership Executive Director Susan East Nelson was a member of a panel to talk about children and families after the 2023 Legislative Session with the participants of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and United Way of Southeast Louisiana's Nancy M. Marsiglia Institute of Justice Alumni Association Washington, D.C. Fly-In.

The panel focused on legislative advances for children and the impacts of the upcoming election. Susan East Nelson was joined by Libbie Sonnier, Executive Director of the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children, Jan Moller, Executive Director of the Louisiana Budget Project, and Melissa Flournoy, Board President and Peter Robins-Brown, Executive Director of Louisiana Progress.

The three-day fly-in included meetings with Louisiana's Members of Congress and Biden Administration executives Mitch Landrieu and Shalanda Young.