My final week in Santiago has been a period of reflection of how much I’ve grown. I spent the week polishing a few details of a report on misinformation laws globally (related to a campaign the organization is going to do), and was proud of how much more efficiently and fluidly I was able to write about my topics. I also have been reflecting on what I have learned here, specifically in relation to a legal team meeting I sat in on the week prior, where I learned about the legal mechanisms for municipalities to institute environmental policy decisions. Although local governments in the U.S. are also constrained by state and federal laws in some of their environmental policy, the system in Chile appears markedly more centralized, something which seemed to frustrate municipal leaders in Chiloé who were attempting to institute local reforms without direct collaboration with federal agencies. My experience working with these officials made me think more broadly about the role of  local governance across different national configurations and its implication on the quantity and quality of environmental regulations communities are able to institute.