AMR is a global issue strongly influenced by the policy landscape. My research aims to better understand AMR across seafood supply chains. As such, I am interested in the wide-ranging factors which have important implications for trade, food safety, and policy development. This interest led me to pursue the BSAC Parliamentary AMR Internship with Baroness Bennett, a scheme that places early career researchers (ECRs) in parliamentary offices to gain experience of the science-policy interface and to develop the skills needed to communicate evidence in accessible, actionable ways to policymakers. I am also an advocate for more ECR engagement, having co-founded NextGenAMR, a platform focused on collaboration, public engagement, and strengthening ECR voices in AMR. Grounded in a One Health perspective, the network connects researchers across disciplines and creates opportunities to communicate AMR research to wider audiences beyond academia. Drawing on experiences from the first six months of the internship and the development of NextGenAMR, I will briefly reflect on engagement across the AMR policy space, from public outreach to engagement with Parliament, and what these experiences reveal about navigating the science-policy interface. If AMR policy is to be future proof, it must include the future, and we the ECRs are the future.