317: “Hello, Would You Like to Talk to Me About Politics?” (with Mary-Pat Hector)
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The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Mary-Pat Hector, the CEO of RISE, an organization that builds student-led advocacy campaigns, promotes increased access to higher education…and strengthens students’ political power through youth voter mobilization. They discuss why Gen Z voters are so unique, why they’re so crucial to defend our democracy in 2024, and why the most effective voter engagement happens on-the-ground and year-round. Be sure to visit risefree.org to keep up with all the work of RISE. For more from Reed Galen, subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Campaign 2024 has begun. We are now on the clock, everybody. We are |
| 0:06.4 | on the clock. Iowa is in the review mirror. Super Tuesday is coming up in early March, guys, |
| 0:12.2 | the time has come. Let's get involved. Get involved in your communities and your towns. Go to join |
| 0:18.7 | the union.us. Find any number of the hundred plus partner organizations we have and get |
| 0:24.1 | involved in your community and make sure that we get every last pro-democracy voter to |
| 0:29.4 | the polls in November that we can. |
| 0:31.5 | I want to say thank you and on with the show. |
| 0:42.4 | Okay. on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm your host, Reed Galen. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, I'm joined by Mary Pat Hector, the CEO of RISE, an organization that builds |
| 0:51.7 | student-led advocacy campaigns, promotes increased access to higher education, and strengthens students' political power through youth voter mobilization, which will be key this year. |
| 1:02.5 | Mary Pat is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, a proud graduate of Spelman College, and a current graduate student at Georgia State University. |
| 1:09.6 | Mary Pat, welcome to the show. |
| 1:11.4 | Hi, Reed. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:14.2 | No, absolutely. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.6 | As I said, right before we went on the air, it's your generation that saved our bacon in |
| 1:20.5 | 2022 and will probably very much be at the forefront of doing it again. |
| 1:24.7 | But before we get into Rise, the work that you're doing |
| 1:28.7 | in the get out the vote, the voter education perspective, let's talk a little bit about you. So at the |
| 1:34.1 | age of 18, you were already advising then President Barack Obama on criminal justice reform. |
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