Voter Categories and Voter Engagement

October 16, 2022

Outreach to voters in Michigan—Voter Categories and Voter Engagement

Keynote Presenters Donna Miller and Mayte Aldrett

Ice Breaker Question – On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not at all and 5 being trailblazing, how civically engaged do you consider yourself to be? (2min)

Donna Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in Media Communications from the University of Arizona and is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Vote Voiced; a nonprofit organization that educates, registers, mobilizes, and offers voter protection information. Currently, Donna serves as the Executive Director of Walking Toward Change. Founded in 2010, Walking Toward Change operates at the grassroots level. On a local, state, and national level, it exists to promote and sustain Black and indigenous participation in the political process. She is also a member of the Walking Toward Change Executive Board. 

Donna has been organizing phone banks for the last 7 years; writing phone bank scripts and responding to voter engagement text banks. Her voter outreach program includes canvassing, non-contact canvassing, ballot curing, rallies, voter outreach forums, and candidate forums. The Empower Project and New Talk accounts are used by Vote Voiced to effectively reach voters. 

Mayte Aldrett (she/her) is a Coaching Specialist with the Empower Project. She is part of a team that serves as a supportive role for nonprofits working in relational organizing. Born and raised in Houston, her home shaped her passion for environmental and economic justice.

Before returning to Texas, she worked with South Chicago communities organizing for a solidarity economy and managed a workers’ cooperative incubator at an immigrant worker center. Having returned to her home city, she is excited to continue collaborating with local organizers in matters of public health and equity.

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“If one wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony.” — Baldwin, No Name on the Street“

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