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🗓️ 16 March 2021
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“People should feel like they have a real say in the decisions that impact their everyday lives.”
Beth Huang says community organizing is on her mind 24/7. As the Director of the Massachusetts Voter Table voting rights organization, it's her life's mission to get everyone everywhere (starting in Massachusetts!) registered to vote and showing up to vote. Beth and the MA Voter Table don't care how you vote — it's a nonpartisan organization — they just want you to have answers so you know how to register, how to get to the polls (no easy task in 2020!), and how to stay active in your own community. On this episode, Beth explains how they actually do this. She talks about the importance of caring about your local community, and about why it's not just the big elections every four years that matter. The MA Voter Table is especially focused on BIPOC communities, and on creating a more equitable and even playing field. This episode is a great reminder about the importance of civic access (that everyone who wants to vote can vote), civic engagement (that everyone who can vote does vote), and civic responsibility.
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| 0:22.8 | of The On The Job Series. Every week on the job I will introduce you to women who have |
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| 0:55.6 | about voter tables. What's a voter table? You're about to find out. Thanks to Beth Quang, |
| 1:01.3 | who is the director of the Massachusetts voter table. Beth's mission, her job, her passion, |
| 1:07.2 | her life's work is the pursuit of getting everyone everywhere, starting in Massachusetts, |
| 1:13.5 | registered to vote and showing up to vote. They are a bipartisan organization so they don't |
| 1:19.1 | care how you vote. They just want people in the community to have answers to know how to |
| 1:24.0 | register to vote, to know how to get to the polls, which made her work in 2020, particularly |
| 1:29.5 | challenging since, if you recall, the election happened during a pandemic and things were all |
| 1:34.0 | kinds of complicated. On this episode, Beth talks about how she and her team actually do this. |
| 1:40.0 | She talks about the importance of caring about your own local community and how to do that in a very, |
| 1:45.1 | very doable and honestly kind of fun and sweet way. And she reminds us all that voting isn't just |
| 1:51.2 | in every four-year thing when presidential elections roll around. It's in all the time, |
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