The Voter Project - Sharing Stories from Voters in Congressional Districts Across America

This episode's interview is with Vaibhav Dwivedi, originally from India and now living in New Jersey. He talked about his life as a graduate student at Rutgers University, his political volunteering, and his advocacy with the graduate student union, where he works to raise awareness in the broader community about the challenges graduate students face.

Today's episode is with Antionette Carroll, founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a civic engagement and design social enterprise that empowers and challenges community members to design inclusive cities by developing solutions to address personal and structural racism. Antionette talked about her life growing up, what policy issues matter to her, and the recent murder of her younger brother, Oscar Johnson III.

A recent article by Antionette, called Gun Violence is a Product of Design: A Lesson Learned From Losing a Younger Brother, can be found here: https://medium.com/equal-space/gun-violence-is-a-product-of-design-a-lesson-learned-from-losing-a-young-brother-638111498c65

Today's episode is with Rena Cook, a voice coach, a speaker and an author living in Oklahoma's state house district 77, where Shay White is running for state representative. Rena talked about the policy issues that matter to her, as well as her support for Shay, a young woman of color and activist with a master's degree in social work.

Today's episode is a wide-ranging interview with Erin Anhalt. Erin is a navy spouse with three children with special needs living in Maryland, but is still registered to vote in Ohio, where she just left as campaign manager for Michael Galbraith, who just won the Democratic nomination for the House seat in Ohio's 5th district.

This episode is with Barbara Bessette, a 33-year old Democrat from Great Falls, Montana, running for the state house in district 24. She is a member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe, a federally recognized tribe on Montana's Rocky Boy Reservation and descendants of Cree who migrated south from Canada, and Chippewa (Ojibwe) who moved west from North Dakota. Barbara talked about the issues that matter to her as a voter and as a candidate, including substance abuse and human trafficking.

Today's interview is with graphic designer Jayvn Salomon, the creator of Vibe Switch, who lives in Missouri's 1st congressional district in St. Louis. Vibe Switch was born out of a 24-hour design challenge focused on solutions to racial inequality and police brutality, which was held by the non-profit social enterprise, the Creative Reaction Lab, following the unrest in Ferguson in the summer of 2014.