Blog | #VoteThatJawn

Nov 29, 2020
1 min

Voice That Jawn

Intergenerational stories of voter participation to inspire your vote Voice That Jawn is a six-part podcast miniseries by #VoteThatJawn summer intern Michaela Prell that shares intergenerational stories of voting. Listeners will be inspired to vote when they hear stories from their peers, elders, and voices in between on why voting matters and how each voter participates in history. Episode one features 99-year-old Ms. Rena Graves of Germantown, who tells the story of her fir

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VoteThatJawn

Oct 30, 2020
3 min

Op-ed: Youth Need to Vote

By Carson Eckhard This article originally appeared in Philly Metro. You can view the original post here. In my Tampa, Florida high school in 2016, I learned the hard way that voting wasn’t an excused absence. The line at the poll was long. When I arrived at school, I was sent to the school office where they put a new tardy mark on my record. Why, I wondered, couldn’t voting be an excused absence? Now that I go to university here, I see that it can be. Philadelphia’s public sc

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A Program that’s Philly-Bred, Woman-Led — Plus MERCH!!!

Storm: From Whitman's Election Day to Ours

VoteThatJawn

Sep 17, 2020
1 min

Storm: From Whitman's Election Day to Ours

Philadelphia Youth Poets Laureate and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society respond to Walt Whitman's "Election Day: November 1884" On September 17, #VoteThatJawn held a reading conceived in partnership with the Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS), to explore civic engagement and the youth vote through poetic responses to Walt Whitman's poem, “Election Day: November 1884." The Kelly Writers House featured original poems by Philadelphia Youth Poe

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Walt Whitman's Election Day Curriculum Guide for Teachers

What’s Your Jawn?: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Interview-Based Writing

First Lady of Jazz Guitar Recalls her Philly Youth, the Folks who Helped, and Why She #VotesThatJawn

The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual

VoteThatJawn

Apr 14, 2020
3 min

The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual

By Sophie Burkholder The way we vote is about to be turned upside down. Fears of the coronavirus pandemic have prompted fears of in-person voting, and demand for mail-in ballots has seen a dramatic increase. There’s little that will stand in the way of the determined youth vote, but recent changes to the polling system because of the pandemic might challenge it. Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot applications require voters to enter their driver’s license numbers, preventing those

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A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice

VoteThatJawn

Apr 4, 2020
1 min

The Escobar Brothers Podcast

By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia. In this podcast, Nicholas, the composer, Alec, the singer-songwriter, and Gabriel, the musical theater singer, actor, and dancer, are joined by their mom, Louisa Shepard, News Officer in Penn's Office of University Communications. We learned so many ways that their music had shaped their lives—and their whole family's. What did we miss? Wel

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You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .

VoteThatJawn

Apr 4, 2020
2 min

You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .

By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a cocktail straw—ghostly, small, gaspy. Trumpets seemed shiny and strong, loud and brass and hard. A wall of shiny sound. I wanted to make that. Mom said that I would not want a callus on my lip like Louis Armstrong. Actually I did. I liked his lips. I liked to look at the black and white photo of him on the record album in Nana’s cupboard. Ha

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VoteThatJawn

Mar 25, 2020
2 min

Rethinking Everything—Except Your Vote!

Today, instead of youth from across the city meeting on Penn’s campus to get youth vote trending, #VoteThatJawn officially begins—ta-dah!—the Pandemic Re-think Everything Campaign. Recalculating! So what’s next? Virtual Jawn! Student contributors begin work this week to stock the new website Jawn like a trout stream with great content. They will be writing stories and curating multi-media to release starting April. Wanna contribute? Email us: VoteThatJawn@gmail.com. Student w

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Countdown for Students and Teachers to VTJ

Syra Ortiz-Blanes

Sep 21, 2018
4 min

Countdown for Students and Teachers to VTJ

Organize, Strategize, Socialize, Share and Compare! It’s time to Vote That Jawn: How to get YOU and your friends to the polls. It’s finally Friday, and Vote that Jawn is less than 24 hours away! The VTJ team wants to share some real life stories of teachers and youth who have made moves in their communities and mobilized others to vote. It’s possible, and you can do it too! Many of the ideas in this list come from you, like collaborating with local voting registration dynamo

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Voice That Jawn

Op-ed: Youth Need to Vote

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Out of the Mouth of Babes

A Program that’s Philly-Bred, Woman-Led — Plus MERCH!!!

Storm: From Whitman's Election Day to Ours

Walt Whitman's Election Day Curriculum Guide for Teachers

What’s Your Jawn?: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Interview-Based Writing

First Lady of Jazz Guitar Recalls her Philly Youth, the Folks who Helped, and Why She #VotesThatJawn

#VOTETHATJAWN 2020

The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual

A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice

The Escobar Brothers Podcast

You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .

Rethinking Everything—Except Your Vote!

Countdown for Students and Teachers to VTJ