Christine Scanlan

We will miss seeing everyone in person this year for our 27th Annual Leadership Awards, but are delighted to connect with you virtually with what will be a wonderful event recognizing our outstanding awardees who have met the challenges of 2020, with intelligence, innovation, and engaged leadership.

At Keystone Policy Center, this unprecedented year required out-of-the-box thinking and we quickly pivoted our work to address today’s challenges. We built on our long-standing partnerships with tribal leaders to secure food delivery, develop strategies to increase broadband access, and safeguard voting access for tribal communities. We spearheaded a diverse coalition of education leaders to develop new strategies that provide robust support for teachers and reimagine instructional delivery in a new era. And we continue to be called upon to leverage our 15-year experience developing pandemic and emergency response strategies with government agencies and other stakeholders.

We advanced these solutions by adopting virtual and hybrid meeting models allowing us to continue creating dynamic and impactful advances in energy, agriculture, emerging genetic technologies, public lands, and the environment. We utilized these new platforms to also launch our Key Conversations series – featuring the nation’s top policy leaders – and an ongoing webinar discussion series with our Keystone Energy Board highlighting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This year has reaffirmed that lasting solutions to complex problems are created through collaborative, inclusive, and bipartisan decision-making – even when people cannot meet in person. We look forward to recognizing the extraordinary leaders and their organizations whose work embraces Keystone’s spirit and mission of inspiring leaders to reach common higher ground at the 27th Annual Keystone Leadership Awards. We hope you will join us!

Christine Scanlan
President and CEO
Keystone Policy Center