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How Kamryn Davis Uses Her Passion to Inspire Change
“[Voting is] not something that's taught and it’s such an important process that impacts the rest of our lives. If you don't teach us now in high school… that's why we're not voting until we hit, maybe, 30… Then people are still more likely to just only vote for the president or vote for whoever they see on mainstream media. … That's why we try to [educate] because there's so much wrong with the systems that impact young people every day.”

VoteThatJawn
Jun 265 min read


Letting 18-year-olds Drive Us to the Future: Confessions of Old, Some of Us, Like, Seriously Old, Youth-Vote Advocates
Each day, another 50 or so 17-year-olds in Philadelphia turn 18, and soon it’ll be time to hand them the keys.

VoteThatJawn
Nov 12, 20243 min read


Deja Kilgore – Vote That Jawn!
Deja Kilgore sits across from me at Philadelphia City Hall, leaning in with a quiet confidence, poised for our conversation.

VoteThatJawn
Nov 12, 20244 min read


2024 Trend That Jawn
Eight University of Pennsylvania students who attended Trend that Jawn offered their reflections from the evening.

VoteThatJawn
Nov 1, 20244 min read


Youth Voting Initiative Hosts #TrendThatJawn, Youth Vote Press Conference at City Hall
At their annual event, #VoteThatJawn encourages young people to register and vote!

VoteThatJawn
Oct 2, 20243 min read


We Need Black Teachers! Here’s a Pipeline
Today, we’ll dive into the ongoing legacy of Philadelphia, part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 9, 20243 min read


How Freedom Schools Made It to Philadelphia
By Rae Norman Imagine a school that teaches “young people to function productively and meaningfully in society, or [gives] them the tools...

VoteThatJawn
Aug 9, 20244 min read


Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Lessons from ‘The Other Philadelphia’
No one outside of its residents had ever really heard of the small Mississippi town before June 1964. That’s when the stories began.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 7, 20242 min read


The Freedom Summer: When Students Rose Up and Changed the World
Today in 2024, we find ourselves at the 60-year anniversary of some of the most influential few months of the Civil Rights Movement.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 7, 20244 min read


Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing
“Blacks [do] everything. Everything,” Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, declared in awe. And it was true.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 7, 20243 min read


Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger
It was June 21, 1964 and James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were setting out for Philadelphia, Mississippi

VoteThatJawn
Aug 7, 20242 min read


Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation
Freedom Summer volunteers had an orientation; here’s yours.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 7, 20245 min read


Voting Against Memory
There were many times I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because of demonstrations happening downtown.

VoteThatJawn
Jul 24, 20243 min read


How School Might Help Prepare Youth for Real Life
By Cassidy Whaley Over the years I've come to realize a striking truth: in school, students often spend as much time questioning the...

VoteThatJawn
Jul 24, 20244 min read


Tune In, Turn Up, Turn Out: Coercing Your Friends to the Polls
Isabel Engel provides ways to get your friends out and to the polls during election season!

VoteThatJawn
Jun 29, 20242 min read


Committee of Seventy joins forces with youth voter education organization, Vote That Jawn
The partnership unifies two leaders in civic participation and expands C70’s existing mission to connect with youth and first-time voters.

VoteThatJawn
Apr 4, 20233 min read


Sheyla Street: Getting in the Fight
By Tina Smith-Brown Philadelphia is a tough place for politics. Registering voters is far from easy here, but West Point cadet, Sheyla...

VoteThatJawn
Nov 14, 20224 min read


City Hall’s #TrendThatJawn
Youth voting is trending all over America; it only made sense to create an event that would highlight and support these efforts.

VoteThatJawn
Nov 14, 20222 min read


Party with a Purpose: Trend That Jawn!
Vote That Jawn Hosts Social Event Celebrating Philly Youth Vote, Oct. 26, 6-7 pm Vote That Jawn, a nonpartisan group of youth, educators,...

VoteThatJawn
Oct 12, 20222 min read


Map That Jawn - The Full Story
So, what were you doing during history class? We’re here to teach you about redistricting, gerrymandering 101, and the power of your vote.

VoteThatJawn
Apr 26, 20223 min read


How YOU Can #VoteThatJawn
So how can you help? How can we ensure that the now-fair Pennsylvania maps stay fair? Easy: you #VoteThatJawn. Everything that has happened

VoteThatJawn
Apr 26, 20224 min read


PUSHING P WITH HS VOTER REGISTRATION
YOU’RE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE? — THAT’S NOT P. By Tiara Risby Voting is more than a wave in the same way Gunna says “Pushing P” is more...

VoteThatJawn
Feb 13, 20222 min read


My Whiplash Year
2020 has been a year of firsts for me. My first (legal) drink, first pandemic, first apartment, first presidential election, first Zoom...

VoteThatJawn
Jan 17, 20214 min read


What I Learned on Election Day
When I stepped out of my house on Beyer Avenue on November 3rd, I took small sips of my coffee, believing I would have time to finish...

VoteThatJawn
Jan 17, 20213 min read
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