Advocacy
Voice Your Vote
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Voice Your Vote was a social media campaign I created when I worked as a Campus Lead for nonprofit, VoteMob. This campaign was a get out the vote effort during the 2020 election. My goal was to share information, educate, and provide actionable steps for Stout students to go out and vote.
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To achieve this month-long campaign, I chose to touch on and talk about eight specific topics. The topics discussed and posted were the following:
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Title and purpose of the campaign
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Important election dates
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Why you should vote - the importance of voting and what it affects
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Who the presidential candidates are and what they stand for
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Voter suppression and how it affects out-of-state UW-Stout/Wisconsin students
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"Democracy is on the line" - a discussion about why we should vote Trump out of office because he discussed becoming a third-term president
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Important voter information (posted four days before Election Day)
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Election Day! Features why the Vote Mob staff voted
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Research and keeping up to date on the latest news about the 2020 election was a very crucial part of this campaign. I made sure to look through multiple sources and cited them on our social copy. Apart from research, I also wanted to ensure the brand of the campaign was consistent and tied to VoteMob's. This helped identify and clarify the tone and voice of the campaign, which was conversational and informational but not boring or generic. The skills and
and tools used for this campaign included: research, document design, writing (for the internet), style & editing, content strategy, social media management, Instagram, and Canva.
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VoteMob was a nonprofit organization in the state of Wisconsin. The work of VoteMob was to collaborate with other organizations that champion young people to speak up about the current social and political climate in their locality and throughout the nation (ex: police violence). They achieved this work by providing tools and resources on advocacy, organizing, and leadership development. Unfortunately, VoteMob is no longer a running nonprofit organization, disbanding in 2020.
Community Conversations: A Discussion About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity​
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Community Conversations was an event that I hosted, alongside a team of people, to give students of color a platform to share how the campus climate can be more inclusive and equitable towards them and respective marginalized student communities on campus.
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The event itself was a panel discussion with six BIPOC students who were a part of multicultural student organizations on campus, including two panelists who are members of LGBTQIA+ student organizations and worked for the Qube, which is a space held for students who identify and are a part of the queer/LGBTQIA+ community. Additionally, at the start of event we had a professor, who taught in the Communication Studies department, to give a keynote speech on "brave spaces"—implanting the idea to show up as yourself in this space and the entirety of the event.
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My role was heavily involved in our communication and marketing efforts. This included creating marketing materials, notetaker during team meetings, being a point person for questions, liason to our keynote speaker and panelists, and hosting the event. The skills and tools used to plan and execute this event includes: community outreach, writing, document design, public speaking, Google Suite, and Canva.
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This event was made possible through a leadership program, Bold Beginnings, that I took part in during my sophomore year in undergraduate school. This program helps students learn more about their leadership style and work collabortively in teams to create an event/work on a project they're collectively passionate about. Each session we would watch videos and have discussions on leadership and how to implement these to our leadership style., my team and I were able to present the purpose, findings, and conclusions to a small group of faculty and were awarded leadership certificates during the annual 2019 Leadership Awards at the end of the year.
Bold Beginnings leaders picture. I'm the second person in on the left side, front row.