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Are We Entering into an Ideal Future? Vote that Jawn and Voter Participation
As you walk onto the Mayor’s Reception Room, you are immediately surrounded by history. A statue honoring Amerigo Vespucci and the seal...
Hannah Yusuf
Feb 5, 20195 min read
Strong Math Foundations Built on a Shaky Kitchen Table
When I was in kindergarten, my mom would sit me down at our dinky kitchen table and teach me how to do long addition on the back of bill...
Joyce Xu
Feb 5, 20193 min read
Riding Shotgun: A Non-Citizen Finds His Identity as an American
I once was told by a fellow immigrant that living in America is like being in a car going on a never-ending road trip — the citizens are...
James Meadows
Feb 5, 20193 min read
Type A Chaos
I was one of the first students to arrive at WHYY, where the Vote That Jawn event would soon begin and was welcomed in by a kind old...
Serena Christine Martinez
Feb 5, 20195 min read
America’s Choosing Day: Voting to Renew Our Democracy
I am walking out of 15th street station by Centre Square in Philadelphia, and a woman coming up beside me remarks on her phone, “Oh, my...
Erinda Sheno
Feb 5, 20193 min read
Confessions of an Average Citizen
I’m an average citizen — not someone who keeps up regularly with current events, tweets about politicians, or fully understands the US...
Joyce Xu
Feb 5, 20195 min read
Entering the Palace
“Behind the ever open gate No pikes shall fence a crumbling throne, No lackeys cringe, no courtiers wait, — This palace is the people’s...
Anna Duan
Feb 5, 20195 min read
A Semester of Improvisation
As we waited in the Mayor’s Reception Room for our guests to arrive for the #VoteThatJawn celebration, Philadelphia’s Clef Club Junior...
Elena Tomlinson
Feb 5, 20193 min read
Animate the Vote: A Young Philly Artist, Now in L.A., Tells How She Got Into Animation and Where She
Rachel Headlam, the 18-year-old Philly character animator and I meet at a bustling juice shop. “I’m wearing a white pinstriped shirt, a...
Neyat Yohannes
Oct 28, 20184 min read
Your Vote Is Bigger than You: What Vote that Jawn Means to Me
“The quality of the dining hall food just doesn’t match the tuition fee I’m paying,” someone just complained to me. I nodded earnestly,...
Hannah Yusuf
Oct 28, 20183 min read
When Young People Don’t Vote, It Matters: How the Leaders we Choose Change the Stories we Tell
I can recall the first time my parents saw Barack Obama on TV as if it happened yesterday. I was in first grade. My parents were talking...
Hannah Yusuf
Oct 28, 20184 min read
Register to Vote with #VoteThatJawn: There’s More Than One Way to Register in PA
Are you one of the 20,000 Philadelphia youth turning 18 before the 2018 election? Watch the video to find out about all the ways you can...
VoteThatJawn
Oct 23, 20181 min read
My First Vote: Residents of the Cathedral Village Retirement Community Share Stories About Their “Fi
It’s a hot time in the old folks home these days. Elections are coming up in November and these guys are psyched. I recently asked a...
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Oct 23, 20189 min read
A Modest Proposal: How You Can Save the Planet by Riding a Bike
What I am about to share could save the earth from pollution. People should stop driving cars and ride bikes. Every day a lot of people...
Cesar Eleazar
Oct 23, 20182 min read
Just Act, Go Vote: A People’s Jam on Justice!
During the 2016 presidential election, when I was just five months shy of being old enough to earn my voice in American politics, I...
Samira Mehta
Oct 23, 20183 min read
When Philly Gives its Best, it’s the Place to Be: A Whole Jawn that Works Together
I was wandering up and down North 6th street, feeling foolish that the whole train ride here I had been envisioning a block party. That...
Erinda Sheno
Oct 23, 20183 min read
To March or to Vote? They’re Different, So Do Both
During my second year of college, I took my first ever creative writing course. My sweet professor had us check in with her at the...
Joyce Xu
Oct 23, 20183 min read
Got Lemons? Making Lemonade Is a Life Lesson
“When life gives you lemons, you can’t make lemonade unless you know where the sugar and water are,” proclaims Tamara Anderson. She’s a...
Samira Mehta
Oct 23, 20182 min read
The Shadow of Doubt: Grappling with the all-too-easy cynicism trap
What good could a couple of painted signs do? This is what I thought to myself as Lansie Sylvia, director of Next Stop Democracy, took...
Anna Duan
Oct 23, 20183 min read
Rally to Register
Youth voting campaign ‘Vote That Jawn’ shares resources to bring first-time voters to the ballot All the lanyard-wearing folks handing us...
Serena Baldick, Sonali Deliwala, Anna Duan
Sep 22, 20185 min read
#VoteThatJawn Kickoff to be Held to Help Young People Prepare for Midterm Elections, Sat., Sept. 22,
PHILADELPHIA – Sept. 18, 2018 –Young Philadelphians are invited to participate in #VoteThatJawn, a nonpartisan, city-wide campaign...
VoteThatJawn
Sep 22, 20183 min read
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...
Syra Ortiz-Blanes
Sep 21, 20184 min read
Vote That Jawn: We Need Young Voters Now More Than Ever
Right now, outside my building at 34th and Walnut streets, a marching band is playing to welcome first-year students to their new...
Lorene Cary
Aug 23, 20184 min read
You’re 18? This Is Your Chance Join Yara Shahidi and Make America Better for Young People
“Control Congress and you control the country.” That’s a quote from Yara Shahidi. Yara Shahidi stars in the hit TV shows Black-ish and...
Jacob Kind
Aug 23, 20183 min read
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