Justin Edwards Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Keesler Air Force Base - Biloxi, Mississippi

* Certificate of Training - Weather Forecaster Apprentice Course* 1-Level - Helper

Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland, San Antonio, Texas

* Honor Graduate - USAF Basic Military Training

Washington, Dc

* Drafted vote recommendations, bill co-sponsor requests, and read aheads for staff and Member.* Drafted issue response letters for legislative staff and constituents.* Assisted constituents and staff with District casework.* Fielded requests and policy concerns from constituents, organizational leaders, government staffers, the media, and the public.

Washington, Dc

* Orchestrated state and federal legislative, regulatory, political, and grassroots activities to advance the public policy agenda for enrolled agents, America’s only federally licensed tax practitioners authorized by Treasury to represent taxpayers and small businesses before the IRS in collections, audits and appeals.* Served as key government relations advocate for enrolled agents and NAEA members on issues relating to tax reform and implementation, IRS reform, and federal, state, and local tax administration. * Engaged with IRS officials and tax practitioner industry stakeholders on tax policies and topics that may have affected taxpayers, EAs, other Circular 230 practitioners, tax software, and tax administration industry stakeholders. * Fostered relationships with congressional tax writers to help them become more knowledgeable about the EA profession, raising the EA profession’s profile in Washington.* Steered fundraising activities as NAEA PAC Treasurer to help NAEA members elect federal candidates who support effective tax administration and policies favorable to the enrolled agent profession. * Planned and organized six annual Fly-in Days to advance the EA profession’s interests on tax and IRS reform, minimum competency standards for return preparers, and protection of the EA credential before NAEA members’ elected representatives on Capitol Hill.* Liaised with the IRS Office of Practitioner Enrollment and Return Preparer Office to help hundreds of NAEA members with their compliance inquiries relating to renewing or maintaining their federally-issued EA licenses.* Drafted weekly state and federal legislative, regulatory and judicial correspondence, reports and tax updates for NAEA members.* Planned and organized an annual lineup of panelists and topics to be discussed during Tax Talk Today, an online broadcast media tax education platform partnership with NAEA, Tax Talk Today, and IRS.

Washington, Dc

* Advanced the actuarial profession’s public policy agenda and interests before Congress and the administration. * Tracked, analyzed, and reported on state and federal legislative, regulatory, and judicial activities affecting actuaries and the insurance industry.* Collaborated with the Academy's Public Policy Department to coordinate Fly-in and advocacy meetings with congressional staff and legislators to discuss issues of concern to Academy members. * Engaged with legislators and staff with ties to the House Committees on Energy & Commerce, Education & the Workforce, Ways & Means, Financial Services, Small Business, Government Oversight, Judiciary, the Senate Committees on Finance, HELP, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Judiciary, Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, the Special Committee on Aging, the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Republican Study Committee, and the Speaker's Office.* Engaged with administration officials serving within the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services (HHS), Social Security Administration (SSA), Department of Labor (DOL), and the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on actuarial policy issues.* Drafted large volume of legislative, regulatory, and judicial work products on issues pertaining to health, life, and property/casualty insurance; retirement security; and financial services for actuaries and the public policy department.* Served as Pension Assistance List (PAL) Manager to help over 300 consumers receive pro bono consulting services from pension actuaries while these consumers were attempting to obtain their pension and retirement benefits. Interacted with representatives from the PBGC, DOL, state Departments of Labor and related agencies, corporations, and various other entities to help consumers obtain more information or documents relating to their pensions or retirement benefits.

Washington, Dc

* Reported on congressional hearing and markup outcomes for media outlets, corporations and governmental clients.

Washington, Dc

* Served as Member’s congressional liaison for inquiries and requests from constituents, government staffers, Members of Congress, administration officials, government relations advocates, and the media.* Conducted Capitol tours for visitors; coordinated tour and flag requests; processed mail; and managed interns.* Drafted large volume of letters relating to service recognition, nominations and social correspondence on Member’s behalf.

Washington, Dc

* Assembled coalitions of community and organization leaders to advance public policy agendas for the pharmaceutical industry.* Consistently led team in the development of grassroots and grasstops campaigns, their management and their effected outcomes.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

* Raised campaign contributions for Members of Congress by fostering relationships with individual donors and PAC representatives through direct mail advertising and interactive cold call sessions held with Members at the NRCC and NRSC.* Organized fundraising events for congressional clients (e.g., Rep. Marilyn Musgrave with guest, President George W. Bush).

Pentagon, Washington Dc

* Offered administrative, scheduling and MS Office support for administration of the department’s bi-monthly orientation course for incoming Air Force personnel and Action Officers.

Raleigh, Nc

* Helped secure seats for candidates in federal, state and local races during the 2002 mid-term elections.* Recruited dozens of volunteers from college campuses for staffing phone banks and door-to-door canvassing.* Contributed to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts through mass direct mailing and sign distribution campaigns.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science, Psychology

Associate'S Degree, Meteorology

* Successfully completed the United States Air Force's Weather Forecaster Apprentice Course in May 2023. * Currently undergoing follow-on.