In July 2020, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing called "Protecting the Integrity of College Athletics". Led by Senators Blumenthal, Graham and Booker, the Committee announced their intent to create a "College Athletes Bill of Rights" tied to a reform agenda with Names, Images and Likenesses legislation.  The Bill of Rights includes:

· Empowers and protects economic rights of athletes;

· Allows athletes to market their NIL individually and in group licenses;

· Ensure athletes can negotiate revenue sharing agreements with athletic associations, conferences and schools;

· Empower and protect an athlete’s rights to an education; enable them beyond their academic and athletic career, guarantee lifetime scholarships;

· Create and empower transparency, and give the athletes the right to hold accountable their schools;

· Create an oversight panel for the regulation of agents and third-party NIL deals, making sure they have a real voice;

· Protect the health and wellbeing of college athletes; unacceptable that there is no standardized injury reporting process (including concussions).

Joining me to talk about this issue is Kendall Spencer, former chair of the National Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC). Kendall is a recent graduate of Georgetown Law, and hopes to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic games. Kendall and I discuss the increasing activism of college athletes and how they can collectively use their voices to affect change that levels the playing field for athletes.