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Reporters and Media Professionals: The 2024 Presidential Election is here and YVote youth can help!
Are you reporting on the election and want to include the youth perspective? New to election coverage and curious about youth voting data and trends? Looking for experiences of first-time voters in NYC or across the country? YVote has you covered. Our youth are eager to partner with you in the following ways:
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Speakers for panels or webinars around civics, voting, elections, and advocacy, plus a variety of social justice issues.
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Youth in New York City and across the country to share their lived experiences and perspectives with reporters and provide quotes on the above topics. YVote youth have been interviewed for print, web, and radio stories, as well as broadcasting segments (see links below!).
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Listening sessions in New York City with YVote youth and their peers, particularly around civic engagement.
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Attend one of our upcoming in-person or virtual programs, with YVoters or Next Gen Politics Civic Fellows, to see youth advocacy in action
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Join our weekly youth-run podcast, The Round Table, for a conversation with our team of civic-minded teen podcast hosts
And more! If you don’t see the type of engagement or resource you are looking for above, please reach out.
For press and media inquiries: Contact Katie Bates at [email protected]
Our young people are change-makers AND newsmakers. Check out previous coverage of their work:
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On BronxNet’s December 18th, 2023 episode of OPEN, featuring facilitator Ananna Das and peer leader Emmanuel Annan Jr.
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On BronxNet’s November 1, 2023 episode of OPEN, featuring peer leaders Catrina Chen and Emmanuel Annan Jr. discussing the importance of youth voting
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On PBS’ October 11, 2023 episode of MetroFocus, featuring YVote alum Jolina Jimenez discussing the voting power of young Latinos
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In two recent episodes of BronxNet Open TV with on BronxNet’s Open TV with the unparalleled host Rhina Valentin: cofounder Sanda Balaban and Social Media Director Yessii Burgos here and YVoters Angelina Bland, Anthony Vidals, and Mia White here
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On WNYC, as Aicha Cherif, a junior at School of the Future and Saskia Van Horn, a senior at Energy Tech High School, exhort peers to turn out at the ballot box as well as at protests in “Students Who March for Gun Control Plan to Vote for It, Too”
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On WNYC, again, where YVoter Nuzhat Wahid, a senior at the Academy of American Studies, tells us “This Is How NYC Students Plan a Walkout”
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In Alternet, popping off the page in Andrea Gabor’s article “The Best Way To Prevent Future Trumps: Teach Kids That Voting Matters,” which provides an in-depth account of YVoters’ summer meeting with NYC Councilman Brad Lander and the astute, informed questions they raised.
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In Education Week, featured in an article called “Eighteen in ’18: Bringing Youth into the Political Process”, in which YVote is described as offering “a context, a catalyst, and a scaffold as students wrestle with how to build a better future.”
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In Chalkbeat, profiled in “What three New York City teens say about politics today — and getting their peers to vote,” telling us what they’re passionate about, what teens can teach adults about, ways to get teens to commit to voting, and how they’d describe the current political environment
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In the New York Times, where Saskia Van Horn shouts out YVote as being on her Summer Bucket List.