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The Gist

Voteable strives to empower common people who wish to run for local office.

Our goal is to help pragmatic citizens extend their campaigns for social justice — from petitioning elected officials to becoming elected officials.

We are transpartisan. Rather than align with a faction, we empower pragmatic, ethical, efficacious citizens to run for office.

Background

This movement has been building power for years now, and we can think of no compelling reason why we shouldn’t enter now into a variety of leadership positions, including elected officials.

We’re capable to be sure. We’re excellent communicators, innovators and leaders. We’re networked and we’re organized. We can vote ourselves in. We can lobby the system from the outside and reform it from the inside. Our generation has the numbers, and our generation cares. We’ve shifted the balance of politics before. This time we’ve made it a priority to lead from within government and established organizations.

But we think the process requires more than just a call to run for election. There are real barriers keeping people from running, including lack of information, uncertainty about eligibility requirements or even what positions to run for, nervousness about funding a campaign, and lack of encouragement. If we want to see our movement translate all our potential energy into campaigns for elected office, we need to tackle those obstacles and minimize them.

Who We Are

We’re a rapidly growing group of passionate volunteers getting it done. Join us.

Grady is a recent college graduate interested in writing, public relations, marketing and social media.

Juliana is a writer, bassist and geology nerd who organizes around clean energy and plays ultimate frisbee.

Lisa is a senior Politics/Environmental studies major at Whitman College. She is frustrated by the U.S. Congress’ ability to impede international negotiations. She wants to run for office and do it better.

Nichole is a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin researching ecological impacts of climate change. She also dabbles in radio.

Morgan does lots of climate activism, especially online media that tells the story of the climate movement. See http://itsgettinghotinhere.org

Galen‘s 18 months studying and teaching abroad convinced him people know best how to govern themselves. He enjoys cooking, writing and couchsurfing.