On March 24, 2021, Jennifer Walling, Executive Director of the Illinois Environmental Council, presented "How to Win Friends and Influence Lawmakers: Advocacy and Power Building."

Walling's afternoon lecture was the second plenary talk during iSEE's Environmental Policy Workshop, a pilot program for its upcoming Environmental Leadership Program. In this online workshop, participants learned how to better communicate and advocate for the environmental issues of most importance to them. With plenary talks and collaboration time, the students then made team presentations.