Boston Votes Collaborative

Vote Boston: Brandeis joins space campuses to help voter registration and participation

Boston votes is a nonpartisan coalition of campuses within the Boston space in cooperation with ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a nationwide, nonpartisan initiative of Citizen Nation, which strives for a extra inclusive democracy with this particular problem geared toward rising pupil voter participation and engagement. Efforts of VoteDeis Campus Coalitionorganized by the Worldwide Middle for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Workplace of the Dean of College students, helped Brandeis University earns a gold seal from this problem, acknowledging that 70 % of Brandeis College college students voted appropriately within the 2020 presidential election.

of VoteDeis Coalition organized by Dean of Students Office AND ENACT: Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (a program of International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life). From the Middle for Ethics, it’s organized by David Weinstein, Assistant Director of ENACT and Communications, and Leigh Swigart, Director of Applications in Worldwide Justice and Society.

Boston Votes contains Brandeis College, Boston College, Harvard College and Tufts College amongst others and is one among a number of different state-based campus coalitions that additionally exist underneath the identical umbrella. Maia Lefferman ’25 serves as Brandeis College’s Scholar Consultant VoteDeis Coalition in her involvement with the Vote Boston Coalition working as one of many leaders of the coalition’s steering committee and because the Brandeis consultant on the committee. She excels at selling voter engagement in addition to championing Brandeis College’s position and contribution to the hassle.

Boston Votes has held summits bringing collectively college, workers and college students throughout the coalition to encourage additional outreach and pupil engagement.

Within the coming educational yr, Boston Votes expects to return to in-person high-level conferences and can proceed its efforts to have interaction pupil participation in our democracy and the upcoming elections.

“There are such a lot of important points in America they usually all must do with voting. Voting will all the time be a very powerful approach to have interaction with democracy,” says Lefferman.

The VoteDeis and Boston Votes coalitions play an vital position in empowering school college students as a result of as Lefferman notes, “School college students play an enormous position within the voter engagement course of by being shut in age to non-voters, but voters themselves. . If we acknowledge that energy and use it to extend voter turnout, we will have a big impact on the political course of.”

“I’m proud to characterize Brandeis on this vital effort to unite voters who really feel the same urgency to vote.”

Keep posted about recent voting engagement events coming quickly!