OIA’s government affairs team comes together with expert to cover the state of play for key outdoor industry policy priorities in 2025.
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Shaping the future of outdoor policy,
TOGETHER
The outdoor economy depends on policies that increase access to the outdoors and promote a balanced trade agenda. OIA ensures you have a voice in government by advocating for legislation that fuels growth, protects public lands, and keeps the industry strong.
Shaping the future of outdoor policy,
TOGETHER
The outdoor economy depends on policies that increase access to the outdoors and promote a balanced trade agenda. OIA ensures you have a voice in government by advocating for legislation that fuels growth, protects public lands, and keeps the industry strong.
Use Your Outside Voice
To communicate with your state Senators and Represenatitives.
Policy isn't just politics. It's protection, and progress.
The future of outdoor recreation is shaped by public policy. OIA advocates for your voice in Washington, D.C., and state capitals across the country, advocating for legislation that reduces trade barriers, protects public lands, and increases recreation opportunities. OIA turns complexity into strategic advantage.
Policy isn't just politics. It's protection, and progress.
The future of outdoor recreation is shaped by public policy. OIA advocates for your voice in Washington, D.C., and state capitals across the country, advocating for legislation that reduces trade barriers, protects public lands, and increases recreation opportunities. OIA turns complexity into strategic advantage.
What We Fight For
What We Fight For
TRADE & TARIFFS
- Protect supply chains and lower costs
- Fight for fair, balanced global trade
- Help members recover and avoid tariff losses
CONSERVATION & RECREATION
- Grow economies through policy and partnership
- Protect public lands and cultural landscapes
- Secure sustainable funding for long-term conservation
STATE & LOCAL PRIORITIES
- Protect public lands and expand outdoor access
- Grow local economies with business support
- Champion climate action and sustainable policies
TRADE & TARIFFS
- Protect supply chains and lower costs
- Fight for fair, balanced global trade
- Help members recover and avoid tariff losses
CONSERVATION & RECREATION
- Grow economies through policy and partnership
- Protect public lands and cultural landscapes
- Secure sustainable funding for long-term conservation
STATE & LOCAL PRIORITIES
- Protect public lands and expand outdoor access
- Grow local economies with business support
- Champion climate action and sustainable policies
We Do the Heavy Lifting.
You Get the Strategic Advantage.
You Get the Strategic Advantage.
- Direct access to OIA’s team of federal and state policy experts
- Personalized alerts, talking points, and issue guidance
- Access to our Recreation and Trade Advisory Councils
- Monthly town halls, advocacy toolkits, and real-time updates
- Coalition-level influence without lobbying firm costs
- Templates and support to help your business take action fast
- Online community forum with 100+ industry leaders and experts
We Do the Heavy Lifting.
You Get the Strategic Advantage.
You Get the Strategic Advantage.
- Direct access to OIA’s team of federal and state policy experts
- Personalized alerts, talking points, and issue guidance
- Access to our Recreation and Trade Advisory Councils
- Monthly town halls, advocacy toolkits, and real-time updates
- Coalition-level influence without lobbying firm costs
- Templates and support to help your business take action fast
- Online community forum with 100+ industry leaders and experts
Built in Advocacy. Influence that Works
Why pay for a costly lobbying firm when Outdoor Industry Association’s policy team will advocate for you? We offer direct member support and build connections to the policymakers shaping your future.
Built in Advocacy. Influence that Works
Why pay for a costly lobbying firm when OIA’s policy team will advocate for you? We offer direct member support and build connections to policymakers shaping your future.
Remembering Patricia Rojas-Ungar
OIA was shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden passing of our former Vice President of Government Affairs, Patricia Rojas-Ungar. She was a passionate and inspiring advocate for the outdoors and our members and she will be sorely missed.
A long-time government affairs executive and devoted wife and mother, Patricia passed away in Washington, DC, on August 26, 2021. She was 47 years old.
Alma Patricia Rojas-Ungar was born December 2, 1973, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to Elvira Guerra and Jaime Rojas. Patricia earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Houston in 2001.
Early in her career, Patricia worked helping children in Brazil, then continued on in Houston working with inner-city youth at I Have a Dream-Houston as a project coordinator. Her interest and passion for the public sector led her to work in both the United States Congress and Senate, followed by a successful career spanning 20 years in lobbying and government affairs where she advocated on behalf of issues close to her heart. She held senior roles in The U.S. Travel Association and the Outdoor Industry Association and most recently was a vice president at Strategic Marketing Innovations, Inc.
Patricia’s efforts earned her recognition as a top lobbyist from The Hill, Washingtonian Magazine, CEO Update and Association Trends. In 2011, she was named by the Washingtonian as one of DC’s Top 40 Under 40.
“During her time at OIA, Patricia brought a clear passion for advocacy to work every day, and it’s no wonder she was recognized by her colleagues in D.C. as a top lobbyist,” said OIA Director of Government Affairs Rich Harper.
We grieve with family, friends and colleagues and send our condolences to her husband and children.
Donations in Patricia’s memory can be made to a GoFundMe to support her children and to the UN Refugee Agency.
You can read her full obituary here.