Netroots Nation 2023

Posted by | April 20, 2023
Revealing the Digitally Invisibilized: Discussing Bias and Offering Solutions

Join us as four experienced Black data practitioners discuss their experiences, address data problems rooted in racial bias and introduce solutions found in the field. We’ll pull back the veil...

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Posted by | April 20, 2023
How Data Engineering Can Make Organizers’ Dreams Come True

Imagine if people who signed up to volunteer via Hustle automatically got added to your CRM and assigned an organizer. Data Engineers, especially those with open-source tools like Parsons in...

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Posted by | April 20, 2023
How Influencers Can Help Win Elections and Make Issues Catch Fire

Influencers have a proven record of moving people up the ladder of engagement. But too often, progressive groups under-utilize this effective and low-cost strategy—or they do it wrong, with messaging...

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Posted by | April 20, 2023
Fighting the Campus Right: How to Organize Against Racist, Homophobic Activists

The right-wing youth ecosystem has long excelled at organizing collectively; messaging uniformly and training, training, training young activists—particularly on college campuses. Yes, their ideas are dangerous, radical and anti-democratic. But...

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Posted by | April 20, 2023
Women Candidates: Navigating the Threat of Dis/misinformation Campaigns

Misinformation and disinformation is rampant online, and this has a disproportionate impact on the experience of women, particularly women of color, who run for elected office. At a minimum, disinformation...

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Posted by | April 19, 2023
How We Restored Voting Rights for 55,000 Minnesotans

In Minnesota, the 20-year fight to restore voting rights to those on felony probation was finally won in early 2023 after winning a pro-democracy majority. Join us to hear how...

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Posted by | April 19, 2023
Transforming Public Saftey: The Story You’ve Not Heard about Minnesota

In Minnesota, the Brooklyn Center City Council passed the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence Prevention Resolution, a groundbreaking public safety resolution aimed at reducing the role...

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Posted by | April 19, 2023
From the Field to Powering the Polls: Turning Out Young Voters With Athlete Influencers

In 2022, NextGen America, in partnership with Social Currant, launched their inaugural athlete influencer program, collaborating with college athletes to leverage their impactful social media platforms to promote civic engagement...

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Posted by | April 19, 2023
You Cannot Win Without The Youth Vote

Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, many national news sources suggested that the youth would not turn out. In reality, the election saw the second-highest youth turnout in the last...

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Posted by | April 19, 2023
Building Multi-Racial Power (and Winning!) in Rural Communities

When many progressive leaders hear the phrase "rural organizing," they imagine conservative white farmers. That is, at best, an incomplete picture that limits our ability to see the kind of...

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