March 11 - 7pm Eastern Time - Explore the state of voting by people with disabilities and by young voters. Discuss strategies and programs for your school to register students with disabilities to vote and to prepare all students to make a successful plan to vote. Part of National Civic Learning Week.
Learn about history of voting by people with disabilities, including barriers to voting, efforts to overcome those barriers and current trends in voting. Gain perspectives on youth voting. Access resources to support developing a program to prepare and support students with disabilities (and all students) to register and vote. Discuss the most important strategies to support the disabled youth vote going forward.
- Lisa Schur, Co-Director, Program for Disability Research, Rutgers University
- Doug Kruse, Co-Director, Program for Disability Research, Rutgers University
- Ashleigh McKenna, Chief of Staff, New Voters
- Noorya Hayat, Senior Researcher, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Tisch College, Tufts University
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America - Moderator
Watch this space for updates and resources.
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