The Lasting Value of the Voter Engagement Strategy for Election Day and Beyond

We have a guest blogger on the Microdemocracy Blog. Nathalie Alegre immigrated from Peru with her family when she was 17 years old. After attending community college in Miami, she transferred to Yale University and in 2008 received a B.A. in Environmental Studies and is currently engaged in environmental organizing in New Haven, CT. She’s been interviewing some of the great […]

Questions Before Thanksgiving

We could all use a magic wand just about right now. Over the past few months, as we were working in Arizona, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and several New England states in our Voter Engagement Strategy for Election Day and Beyond, we heard poignant and powerful stories from participants around the country. Even as […]

Making connections: Domestic Violence, Homelessness and…Voting?

For the past month, the nation has sharply focused on a decision about who will lead the country for the next four years. In that same time, in our voter engagement initiative, we’ve been working with people who, every week, come face to face with decisions in the public sector that have enormous consequences for […]

Overcoming Subtle forms of Voter Suppression

When I was a welfare recipient, I always felt like the caseworker on the other side of the desk had a lot of power to affect my life. There were all sorts of decisions made right there, on the spot, that might mean my benefits could be cut off or maybe I wouldn’t be able […]