Better Places to Serve
Improving workplaces in our state legislatures
We promote policies that strengthen who serves.
RPS is a multi-state policy campaign that works to advance commonsense policies in state legislatures across the country.
We invest in direct and grassroots advocacy efforts to advance bipartisan policy solutions.
About
Modernization
Our Leadership
Sarah Vaughan, Executive Director
Sarah is a political operative with extensive experience working on both sides of the aisle to advance policy that is impactful. She has experience in running successful legislative campaigns, bipartisan lobbying, and issue advocacy.
As Managing Director of the Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME), she helped create and execute a program to pass automated voter registration (AVR) and other policies that have added close to 20 million voters to the rolls across the states. Prior to this, she worked to advance marriage equality garnering support from both sides of the aisle.
Sarah Gonski, Policy Director
Sarah is a public policy expert who helps states and local jurisdictions design and implement policy solutions to make government more efficient, accessible, and responsive. She focuses on bipartisan, big-tent efforts that cross traditional party lines.
She is an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University’s College of Law. Prior to her policy and teaching work, Sarah spent the better part of a decade as an attorney in private practice. Sarah lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a graduate of the University of the Unversity of Maryland and Harvard Law School.
Cornerstones
Our Priorities
Our focus is on better people.
All who serve, regardless of party, should have a safe and functional workplace that encourages their success.
Our approach is bipartisan.
The problems we seek to address exist in both red states and blue states, and our solutions target both.
We are a big-tent movement.
We are focused on exploring innovative policy solutions in red, purple, and blue states, with support from all sides of the political spectrum.
Our Network
We build diverse, durable coalitions.
We aim to leverage the political power of all in our network, and work closely with others who share our policy goals.
Our leaders are powerful changemakers.
Our advisory board is made up of women who are leaders in their local communities and are working to engage key allies on both sides of the aisle.
Our Policies
Legislative pay
Making the legislature a sustainable job with a livable working wage that can support a family.
Safe workplaces
Ensuring that state legislatures are secure and welcoming environments for all who work there.
Expanding coverage
Reflecting the reality that legislators—like all workers—need benefits, with a focus on extending family and medical leave benefits and expanding proxy voting for all new parents.
Contact
Information & Requests
info@responsivepolicysolutions.org
Sarah Vaughan, Executive Director
svaughan@responsivepolicysolutions.org
Sarah Gonski, Policy Director
sgonski@responsivepolicysolutions.org
