Call Her Madam

Throughout the last decade, the population of New York's District 32 has changed drastically. This district, now being a minority-majority district, is holding City Council elections in June 2, 2021. In this upcoming week’s episode we got the opportunity to speak with Bella Matias, one of the candidates who is running for the seat!

Women make up 51% of the population, but they only make up 31% of the state legislation. In 2018, 25 year old-Selena Torres became part of that 31%. She became the Assemblywoman for Nevada’s 3rd District. In this episode we discuss with the Assemblywoman what it was like not only running for office, but also being one of the youngest elected representatives in the Nevada Legislature.

As the average incumbency rate across the this first United States is 99% in this episode we spoke with someone who wished to be the 1% of individuals who were able to defeat an incumbent. We spoke with Jen Perelman, Florida's 23rd District former Congressional candidate, and Peter Hager, Jen’s former campaign manager and small business owner.

In this 117th Congress we are seeing the largest number of women in American history serving! In this episode, Ale and Bella are introducing you what started this revolutionary movement that pushed so many individuals to run for office!

On January 20, 2021 the first female Vice President of the United States was sworn into office. It has been 149 years since the first woman ever ran for President, regardless of you political affiliation, having the first woman Vice President in American history is a momentous event for all women! In this week's episode we are highlighting the voice of Mira Morgan as she addresses what having the first female, Vice President means not only to her, but also to many Americans.

On January 6, 2021, the United States stopped and watched in dismay as white nationalist broke in and looted the United States Capitol, as Congress members met and counted the Electoral College votes in favor of President-Elect Joe Biden. In this episode we will be hearing from Cameron Bernier, a Political Science and History student at the George Washington University as he recounts his experience of being in D.C. at the time of the terrorist attack and explains what this attack means in the future of America.

Expanding from the previous episode, within this episode we are projecting the voices and stories of Kylie Foster and Tatiana Washington, two undergraduate activist students who have had to adapt to the changing world as social media becomes widely used and as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread

As the entire world is enduring the COVID-19 global pandemic, GenZ has proven to be catalyst for change. In this episode hear Daniel Robles talk about his undergraduate research regarding 21st Century Youth Engagement in Politics and the Digital Space, as well as, the effects that the GenZ political engagement has caused throughout the United States and the world.

Even though the United States is starting to become a minority-majority country, much, if not all, that is predicated is to appease white society. Throughout this episode we will dive into who we are and what living in the United States means to us, sharing our first-generation American and Venezuelan-immigrant points of view.