 My name is Ann Lynn and I'm running the Integrated Policy Exercise for the Ford School this year. Trade with Mexico, investment in renewable energy, public health crisis, and environmental degradation all spiral out from law enforcement decisions about whether they should be targeting illegal migrants or the domestic vigilantes who are terrorizing them. The IP is really a lot of fun to teach. It's one of the most creative classes in our curriculum. It's entirely different from the regular classes we teach. Two of the new things we try to do with the IP this year are set students up with real-life organizations that they were representing through conference calls. It was, I think, closely mapped to the real world with how many different groups are interested in this issue, how many people get involved, and how complex the policy really becomes. We come out with solutions at the same time that other crises are happening around you. So the IP really gives students a chance to see what working in a dynamic policy environment looks like. You gain a lot of experience just working with other 40s at the school. We completely engage in the simulation. It's one of those experiences that a lot of students at least hopefully look back upon and say, oh yeah, here I am working for whatever agency having to make a congressional testimony. Well, I did it once when I was an IPE. Experiences like that are what makes it worth it and attractive. For us to actually make things happen through the IPE and be able to create a solution for a challenge, that's definitely putting ourselves to use. I'd rather do that than watch somebody else from the sidelines.