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Nicki Messer and Miles Mosby, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021<\/p><\/div>\n

Miles Mosby said he was apprehensive before his recent trip to the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville.<\/p>\n

Mosby, a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga political science major, serves as president of the campus\u2019 chapter of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature, better known as TISL. College students from across the state come together for TISL\u2019s annual mock government competition, a forum to learn how government works, exchange ideas and express opinions.<\/p>\n

At last year\u2019s event, held in a virtual setting due to COVID-19, the UTC group was selected as the best overall delegation. Mosby received a Carlisle Award, TISL\u2019s oldest and most prestigious honor, which recognizes 10 outstanding student legislators.<\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s competition met in person, and Mosby had his doubts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree weeks before we went, I was talking to my mom and told her, \u2018I\u2019ll be satisfied with just making sure we get everyone there in one piece,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI had these thoughts in the back of my mind like, \u2018Did we win simply because everyone else was off their game? Or since it was online, maybe people weren\u2019t paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mosby need not have worried.<\/p>\n

UTC once again brought home \u201cBest Overall Delegation\u201d accolades, with 27 colleges and universities from across the state participating at TISL\u2019s 52nd<\/sup> General<\/p>\n

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Best overall delegation trophy<\/p><\/div>\n

Assembly. Mosby and Nicki Messer were Carlisle Award recipients, while other UTC award winners included Evelina Kertay, who won Best Bill and Best Researched Bill honors for the second straight year, Anna Linkous (Best Lobbyist-Overall), Mateo Jose-Jimenez (Best Lobbyist-Individual Firm) and Jessica Pruitt (Best Lobbying Firm).<\/p>\n

In addition, Julia Stranahan (lobbying director) and Madison Wallace (attorney general) were elected to statewide TISL executive positions for 2022.<\/p>\n

Chris Acuff, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service, is the group\u2019s faculty advisor.<\/p>\n

En route to winning his second Carlisle, Mosby\u2014a native of Henning, Tennessee\u2014wrote a bill that paid homage to Alex Haley, the famed author of \u201cRoots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was inspired by growing up in Henning, where there\u2019s this big placard out in front of Alex Haley\u2019s boyhood home. Just seeing this placard every time I walk by it gives you that extra level of, \u2018This isn\u2019t just some random house,\u2019\u201d said Mosby, a UTC senior participating in his third TISL competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill that I wrote was a resolution to add historical context to Confederate monuments and the placards that we have around the state of Tennessee on other historical things. It was about adding placards to those monuments to talk about the roles these individuals played. It\u2019s meant to be a compromise between completely removing the statues or leaving them up and offering no context.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messer, who is graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science this week, went to her third TISL competition as a senator and vice president of the UTC delegation. She was responsible for presenting nine bills of varying topics and complexity and passed eight of them, including her bill about automatic voter registration.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause everyone writes at least one bill, you get to advocate for what you believe in,\u201d said Messer, who termed it \u201criveting\u201d in describing getting her own bill passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to come at (automatic voter registration) from an angle that was going to get the liberal crowd excited\u2014but also the conservative crowd, too\u2014because it\u2019s really good long-term for the government. It saves money and it creates cleaner voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messer also served as vice chair of the TISL LGBT caucus, advocating for equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cTISL is full of people who plan to run for office in the future, so getting their attention early is extremely important,\u201d Messer said. \u201cA lot of the bills I sponsored were about LGBT-related things, so we were able to apply political techniques in a way that\u2019s not just about procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were really open to learning more about our issues. Inclusion and equity became the talk of the conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messer was a bill clerk for the Tennessee General Assembly from January-July this year, using that internship to her advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving been a clerk for the Capitol this past spring and through the summer, I knew it geographically; that made me feel a lot more comfortable, so I had a bit of a confidence edge,\u201d Messer said. \u201cAnd since I was in the Senate chamber where I had worked, I knew where everything was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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