On the heels of a New Year and new Congress, groups nationwide are convening to talk about electoral reform. FairVote executive director Rob Richie is making several lectures in early 2007.

Richie made a lunchtime address on January 17 at Kent State University in Ohio. The event was2008 and Beyond: The Future of Election and Ethics Reform in the States. On February 11, he'll sit on a panel of election reform advocates before the National Association of Secretaries of State. NASS' annual meeting will be at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. Richie travels to North Carolina State University on April 18 to give the political science department's annual Abraham Holtzman lecture. He will speak to several classes there on April 17.