254: How to Get Involved in the 2024 Election, with Sam Chavez

Dear White Women

This episode is for all of you who may think: “My vote doesn’t matter.” “I don’t vote.” “I would get involved but I don’t know how or where to volunteer.” “I don’t have any special election-related skills.” Or anything along those lines. You may have even said this out loud, or you may have heard friends or family say this. Either way, this is for you.

We said in our email this week that we were getting ready to dive into Election 2024 - because “I’m not political” or “I don’t talk about politics” is NOT going to cut it; these days, politics is invading our libraries, schools, wallets and bodies and those of our children as well.

So we bring you an incredible activist and supporter of activists, who will leave you with not only the best approach to engage people in your life who say they don’t do politics but also a bunch of organizations you can get involved with between now and November that we think will make a huge difference to the trajectory of our nation.

PS, if you aren’t yet on our email list, what are you thinking!? Get on it! Register at www.dearwhitewomen.com.

What to listen for:

• How do you respond when someone says they won’t be voting? Ask lots more questions.

• Organizations to consider getting involved with:

• Working Parties Family: https://workingfamilies.org/about/

• Swing Left: https://swingleft.org/

• Sister District for state races: https://sisterdistrict.com/

• Northeast Arizona Native Democrats: https://neaznativedemocrats.org/

• Vote Forward: https://votefwd.org/

• Your local state election office to volunteer to be poll workers

• Or check out https://866ourvote.org/ to find out more information about voting and to volunteer to protect the vote and the electoral process

• A free Social Media Care & Resilience Pocket Zine for you!

• The margin of effort – i.e. just how close so many critical elections were, meaning that your effort can potentially make a TREMENDOUS difference to the outcome of an election.

• The post-election recovery session online that Sam will be co-hosting

About our guest:

Sam Chavez is a queer, Latine, New Mexican American activist who’s passionate about a livable planet, belonging, and equitable societies. She founded The Roots of Change Agency to harness her storytelling and decades of marketing experience to cultivate connections that lead to lasting social change. She does this through strategic coaching, workshops, podcasting, and writing.