Hey everyone it's Reed campaign 2024 has begun we are now on the clock everybody we are on the clock

Iowa is in the review mirror super Tuesday is coming up in early March guys guys, the time has come.

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Welcome back to the

the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today I'm an organization, that builds 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.

Mary Pat is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, a

proud graduate of Spellman College and a current graduate student at Georgia State

University. Mary Pat, welcome to the show.

Hi Reed, thank you so much for having me.

No, absolutely, thank you.

As I said, right before it went on the air.

It's your generation that saved our bacon in 2022 and will probably very much be at the forefront of doing it again.

But before we get into rise, the work that you're doing in the get out the vote,

the voter education perspective, let's talk a little bit about you. So at the age of 18 you were already

advising then President Barack Obama on criminal justice reform and then at the age of 19 you ran for office in a city neighboring

Atlanta so you didn't waste much time so give us a little sense of how it not even

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