Announcing a new Students for Justice initiative! Since the very first days of our internship program, we have spoken of hoping to turn our interns into lifelong ambassadors for voting. A grant from the Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation is going to help us to realize that goal by funding an experimental project aimed at keeping former interns engaged in getting out the vote. We will launch the SFJ Ambassadors for Voting initiative this summer.

The grant will allow us to enroll as ambassadors 8-10 former SFJ interns who are on college campuses for the fall semester.  These SFJ ambassadors will recruit, motivate, and supervise student and community volunteers to write postcards and engage in phone banking and text banking to get out the vote in our 2022 target states (GA, NC, and FL). They will, of course, receive stipends. The project will be managed by two talented veteran interns, reflecting our commitment to providing pathways to promotion and professional growth within Students for Justice. These two project coordinators will supervise the ambassadors and provide the creative and logistical direction for the project.

Jona's message is one that should inspire all of us as we begin the serious work of getting out the vote for the 2022 midterm election. Students for Justice protects democracy by promoting voter turnout in the communities of color that have been targeted by voter suppression. This year, we will have 40 interns in our summer session and 80 interns in our fall session, all college students who live and/or attend college in GA, FL, or NC, and most of them students at historically Black colleges or universities. We will now also have SFJ ambassadors on campuses around the country, motivating their communities to get involved in getting out the vote.

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