Webinar: 2025 Legislative Highlights & Updates

Get updates about this year’s legislative session from Joel Anderson, WSAC’s assistant director of external affairs and legislative liaison, and Yokiko Hayashi-Saguil, College Success Foundation’s director of government relations and advocacy. They will walk us through the latest from Olympia, with a focus on funding for the Passport to Careers program and other related measures.

Presenters

Joel Anderson is an assistant director of external affairs and legislative liaison for the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC). Prior to joining WSAC, he served as vice president of external affairs for UW-Seattle’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate while earning his Master of Public Administration from the UW Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. Joel has also worked for multiple elected officials, including former U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Tacoma City Council Member Kiara Daniels, and earned a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Yokiko Hayashi-Saguil is director of government relations and advocacy at College Success Foundation. A former member of the Passport Leadership Team, Yokiko has spent more than a decade advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion within educational systems in her policy roles at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, WSAC, and more. She is a lifelong Pacific Northwesterner from Olympia, Washington. She holds a bachelor’s of liberal arts with an emphasis on Japanese culture and language and received her master’s of public administration and public policy from the Evergreen State College. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership, focusing on multiracial identity, at UW-Tacoma.