In April 2025, our truth Ambassadors traveled to Illinois for a jam-packed few days of learning about best practices for student organizing and meeting with decision makers, as well as learning how to build community with one another. The team also promoted EX Program on the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana campus, and then wrapped up in Chicago for meetings with the offices of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and Illinois Attorney General Raoul. In the meetings, our Ambassadors asked decision makers to keep up the good work of keeping our communities free from tobacco, and to continue their efforts to remove illegal tobacco products from the market.

In Spring 2024, truth activists met with the White House Office of Domestic Policy about the proposed rule to end the sale of menthol cigarettes. While the rule has not been finalized, this was an important moment for those in power to hear directly from young people about the negative impacts that menthol and its marketing has had on communities nationwide.

We also filmed a series of intergenerational conversations about menthol's impact, titled "The Unfiltered Truth." Long standing advocates Dr. Mignonne Guy and Reverend Horace Sheffield joined some of the next generation of activists - Bryce Kahari and Jordan Watkins - to speak candidly about the health equity impacts of menthol and the good that its removal would do for Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, and other communities.