Social Work Votes

In this episode, we speak with Greta Carnes, who was recently the National Organizing Director for multiple presidential candidates in the past. Over the last ten years, Greta has worked on electoral campaigns at every level. We’ll cover what conversations about politics with other people will look like, especially with those who may not agree with us. Greta helps us answer the question: “What do I say?” 

In this episode, the Social Work Votes team jumps in to a conversation with the 18th Dean of the Columbia University School of Social Work: Melissa Begg. We sit down (virtually) with Melissa to discuss how various communities are affected by voter suppression. We hear her thoughts on how the Social Work Votes campaign and the mission might be affected by the recent updates on CSSW's online format. We finish off by targeting various stakeholders within the social work community and discuss how we all can be engaged in  the quest for voting equality. 

In this episode of Social Work Votes, we speak to Mimi Abramovitz, a co-leader of the Voting is Social Work campaign. We head to where the campaign all started and ask whether Mimi had any push back for her initiative. We also chat about her recent research survey that examined attitudes on voter engagement and the extent of voter engagement
activity. Go to votingissocialwork.org for more information on how to get involved, and follow us on Twitter / Instagram at @socialworkvotes. 

In the first episode of Social Work Votes, we discuss if social workers should be political and what that would look like. We’ll hear from Jaime Estades, Esq., lawyer and social worker from City University of New York, founder of Latino Leadership Institute, and policy advocate on the recent events in voting and what this means for us as social workers. He answers the question: what is our responsibility in politics? Even more, we discuss two important SCOTUS cases and the voter suppression that occurred in Georgia.