By the People: Revolutionizing the Democratic Process to Ensure Full Participation by Millennials and People of Color
- Date & Time
- 09.25.2018 8:00am - 10:00am
- Location
- BUild Innovation Lab @ Boston University, 730 Commonwealth, Boston, MA
YW Boston is joining lead organizers The Latina Circle and Amplify Latinx for By the People, an event hosted as part of City Awake’s Fierce Urgency of Now Festival
The most impactful movements in history have been set in motion at the grassroots level. Join us for a trendsetting dialogue on inclusive voting models and learn about innovative strategies to overcome barriers to civic engagement. Walk away with a toolkit that will equip you to educate voters on a system that drives voter participation.
Black and Latino voters could make a sizable difference in this Fall’s mid-term elections. The Millennial and Latinx population will grow more than 55% in the next two decades to 90 million — representing more than a quarter of all Americans. This demographic shift presents a key opportunity to invest in outreach and new voting processes to ensure strong turn out by this large, yet disengaged electorate.
In this forum led by expert speakers, we will hear success stories around online voter registration, early voting, pre-registration of high school age students, and automatic voter registration. We will also explore how we can disrupt voter access by implementing engagement strategies such as ranked choice voting and clean “citizen funded” elections to increase candidate access and voter participation by traditionally under-represented communities.