Webinar: Campus-Wide Civic and Voter Engagement: Opportunities & Resources
July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
From student life to residential hall activities, recreation and facilities staff to the sustainability office, each staff person, faculty and student on campus can encourage voter registration and participation. Data from multiple national elections have shown that the votes coming from higher education students and the larger campus community are often crucial to election results, and have had a tendency to increase since 2014, breaking midterm turnout records in 2018 and 2022. Without these votes, the results would have been different at both the state and national levels. It is important to share the importance of voting and make it easy for newer voters to understand how to register and get their vote submitted.
The Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) has compiled a great list of resources to help make it easy for every campus to host voter registration and Get Out the Vote activities. This webinar will share great examples from a variety of campuses and will discuss how all departments on campus can help with these efforts. The webinar will also be interactive, so if you have concerns, challenges, or success stories, bring them to share. HEASC members include associations for facilities (APPA), housing officers (ACUHO-I), sustainability staff and faculty champions (AASHE), student life staff (ACPA), etc. You can all make a difference and this is how to do that in your role/department!
Presenters
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Steffanie Munguía, Citizens Climate Steffanie Munguía has been volunteering with environmental organizations since she was 11 years old and began providing environmental education programs in her central Florida community. Now she serves as CCL’s Student Engagement Director, increasing college student participation in CCL through several programs that equip young people with the skills and support they need to advocate for climate change solutions in their communities. Steffanie is a proud BoriCubana (Puerto Rican and Cuban) who credits her passions for the environment and service to her early childhood experiences outdoors. She completed her doctoral degree at Florida International University in coastal wetland policy and management in December 2023, focusing on the political, economic, and social factors driving decision-making in these critical natural carbon sinks. |
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Kathryn Quintin, Campus Vote Project Kathryn Quintin is the Deputy Director for Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project. She has spent the last ten years of her career fighting for democracy, social justice, and advocating for the voices of young people. Before joining Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project, Kathryn served as the Director of Network Capacity at the Alliance for Youth Organizing where she coached several state based nonprofits build proactive campaigns and programs and developed infrastructure to strengthen their overall organizational health. Previously, she also has had roles at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote and also served as the Executive Director of the East Coast Asian American Student Union, which holds the largest Asian American student conference in the country. |
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Marwan Mikdadi, University of Michigan Marwan is a rising junior majoring in economics at the University of Michigan and has been involved with Citizens Climate Lobby since high school in 2021. Since 2022, he has become very interested in the tactic of deep canvassing, as well as relational organizing, and how it could be of use to CCL Higher Ed in its election work and in making climate as big an issue as possible in the election. This led him to come up with the idea for the campaign that is now “Be the Climate GOAT: Get out the Climate Vote.” |
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Debra Rowe, US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development Debra Rowe, as President of the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, convenes, nurtures, and facilitates actions for climate mitigation, adaptation, a just clean energy transition, and the Sustainable Development Goals at a global scale. Dr. Rowe heads two action groups for the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI): Education for Green Jobs and the SDG Publishers Compact Fellows program. Nineteen years ago she founded and still runs networks of over sixty national higher education and technical education associations for sustainability. Through the Clean Energy Ministerial’s IPEC project, Dr.Rowe facilitated clean energy transition policy and program collaborations. She ran a Solutions Summits series that provided assistance to participants from over one hundred countries across government, business, education, labor, and other sectors. Dr. Rowe owned retail and wholesale solar companies and then taught renewable energies, energy management, sustainable development, and related topics for forty-two years while helping other colleges and universities start their renewable energies and sustainability programs. Debra co-organizes the National Clean Energy Workforce Alliance and convenes publishers to update clean energy curricula into design, HVAC, solar and other renewables, construction and related degree materials. She received numerous awards, including an energy education award at MIT from CEM (C3E). She works closely with ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability and other associations of national and local governments. She co-authored the UNEP Global Guidance on Education for Green Jobs and facilitates their Solutions Summits and the international community on greening the workforce. She also mentors numerous youth coalitions working on healthy economic development, clean energy, and climate solutions. Degrees: MBA, MA in Psychology, and Ph.D. in Business from the University of Michigan; BA from Yale. |