Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and in this Women Who Travel episode, we have a dispatch from Christina Sinsoon-Rameras.

She's touring 114 college campuses and hosting parties and events to mobilize newly eligible voters.

My name is Christina Sinsune Ramirez, and I'm the president of NextGen America,

one of the country's largest organizations to mobilize young people across the country to turn out in vote.

I think I have one of the coolest jobs.

You know, there is the idea that young people are apathetic, that they don't really care.

It's actually not true.

We've had the three highest youth voter turnouts in American history, the last three elections.

I'm hoping we're going to have the fourth again, this election. This is the most civically engaged generation American history, especially

when you start to talk about young women. And they are very clear what's at stake this election.

And they care more than anything about policy than any single politician or party.

We really push especially young women and organize with young women because young women turn out

at greater rates. And in the last election, when Roe was overturned, it really, of course,

pissed off a generation of young women that had their rights taken back 50 years overnight and

galvanized them to vote. In 2022, 71% of young women voted for Democrats, 53% of young men.

So a pretty big gender divide. Most of our volunteers are women. And then most of our leaders

on the ground are also women. Women, I think we're just

more social creatures. I think social movements, especially civil and voting rights movements,

have often been led by women. If you look back at the history of the civil rights movement,

led by incredible women, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, just to name a few of the incredible women that were at the forefront, but they didn't get the credit for it.

We don't put our hope in any one single party. We put our hope in America's young people. I think that we can push the Democratic Party to be better and

deliver. I wish we could push the Republican Party to do more. But I think we're living in a

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