Andrea Gutman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, has been selected as one of 10 fellows in the 2015 Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) Early Career Policy Fellows initiative,  a program for early career neuroscientists to learn how to become effective advocates for science.

As part of the fellowship, Gutman joined fifty-one other SfN members at its ninth annual Capitol Hill Day on Thursday, March 26, 2015. For almost a decade, neuroscientists have visited members of Congress each year during SfN’s Hill Day to express their support for increased federal science funding. Gutman’s group met with eight legislative offices representing Iowa and Michigan to discuss the latest advances in the field of neuroscience and share the economic and public health benefits of investment in scientific and biomedical research.