First Lady Moore Hosts Third Annual First Spouses Retreat NGA’s Governor Office Engagement team holds multiple meetings and events each year designed to support Governors’ offices and their staff members. The meetings ... Read More
The National Governors Association brought together five Governors, energy leaders, and private-sector voices to Philadelphia on April 16, for a convening on NGA Chair Governor Kevin Stitt’s “Reigniting the American ... Read More
On April 8–9, NGA convened participating states and territories in Charleston, South Carolina for a kickoff convening in support of the Policy Academy to Advance Data Dashboards Measuring Student and System Success. The ... Read More
The Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council (GHSAC) met April 8-9, 2026, in Nashville. The GHSAC regularly brings together Governors’ homeland security advisors from states, commonwealths, territories and the District ... Read More
Governors’ workforce policy advisors, state workforce agency leaders, and Governors’ workforce board chairs from 39 states and territories convened in Washington, D.C., March 11–12 for the NGA Center for Best ... Read More
First Spouses and state policy teams from across the country convened in Asheville, North Carolina on March 9–10 for NGA’s Youth Mental Health Action Lab, marking the kickoff of NGA’s 2026 Youth Mental Health ... Read More
As part of NGA’s Working Group on AI and the Future of Work, Governors’ AI and workforce advisors met last week to share best practices and hear from national experts, including NVIDIA co-founder Chris ... Read More
First Spouses routinely convene at the annual NGA Winter Meeting to meet with philanthropic and government leaders and to elevate the initiatives they are leading in their states and territories. At the 2026 NGA Winter ... Read More
In a week that could easily have been defined by division, the penultimate session of the 2026 NGA Winter Meeting offered something increasingly rare in American public life: two politicians, from ... Read More
In a segment titled “The Power of Service,” NGA Vice Chair Maryland Governor Wes Moore led a panel discussion to explore how Americans can heal division by serving in our communities, as well as how we can honor military ... Read More
At the 2026 NGA Winter Meeting, Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, joined Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt to discuss how artificial intelligence could help reignite the American Dream. ... Read More
Cost of living has been a major focus in governors’ State of the State addresses this year, with chief executives of the nation’s 55 states and territories taking action on affordability solutions encompassing everything ... Read More