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The Constitutional Amendments on the August 13 ballot put Wisconsin's share of federal funding and the distribution of emergency funds at risk. Join the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin for this virtual program to learn why you should vote no to both of these constitutional amendments. Learn what's at stake. These constitutional amendments are confusing and harmful. 

• Professor Chad Oldfather, Marquette University Law School:  Chad Oldfather is Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, where his teaching responsibilities have included courses in both federal and state constitutional law. He has published widely on topics relating to judicial institutions, processes, and behavior, as well as constitutional law and theory. His book Judges, Judging, and Judgment: Character, Wisdom, and Humility in a Polarized World will be published by Cambridge University Press in late 2024.
• Atty Stephanie Bloechl-Anderson, Department of Administration:  Stephanie Bloechl-Anderson received a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2001. She studied International Comparative Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and received her J.D. from New England Law Boston in 2006. Since September 2022, Stephanie has worked as an Attorney Supervisor at the Wisconsin Department of Administration, Division of Legal Services where she oversees the administration and compliance of federal funds, primarily funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). She manages the ARPA federal funds team responsible for policy analysis, quarterly reporting to the U.S. Department of Treasury for all Wisconsin state agencies, and grant program quality assurance reviews. Stephanie also oversees financial monitoring and compliance processes for more than 250 ARPA grantees and provides legal services to the Department of Administration’s Division of Enterprise Operations (DEO) and the Division of Energy, Housing, and Community Resources (DEHCR). In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she worked in both private practice as an attorney representing clients in federal benefit hearings and civil service as an attorney with the Massachusetts Board of Review, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, reviewing unemployment insurance hearing appeals. Stephanie has worked as legal counsel for the State of Wisconsin for over 11 years and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.
• Atty Bryna Godar, State Democracy Research Initiative:  Bryna Godar is a Staff Attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Bryna joined the Initiative following a clerkship with Judge Jeffrey R. Howard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities in journalism and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was Vice President/Treasurer of Harvard Law Review. Prior to law school, she worked as a journalist in Wisconsin and Minnesota, reporting primarily on local and state government.