Geoffrey M. Lorenz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Effective Lawmaking at Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He specializes in how policy entrepreneurs–legislators, organized interests, and others–shape American national policy agendas, processes, and outcomes. His previous work has examined how interest group coalitions shape the agendas of congressional committees, and the role of staff and electoral incentives shaping legislators’ ability to focus their efforts on lawmaking. He has published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Interest Groups & Advocacy, among other outlets. More generally, he studies legislative entrepreneurship, interest groups, and advocacy strategy using network analysis, elite interviews, archival work, and tools of econometrics and data science.