Listen to a podcast about Students for Justice. Its activist co-directors, Claire Ullman & Sandra Radoff, speak about what the organization does and how it works.
Students for Justice is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization. The program was founded in May 2020 to meet two urgent needs—the need to fight voter suppression and apathy, and the need to engage young people in the electoral process. The interns are paid college students who work remotely, taking on a variety of projects — communications, outreach, and community organizing — all aimed at getting out the vote. They develop social media campaigns to increase voter registration and turnout. They recruit, train, and motivate volunteers to use postcards, phone calls, and texts to contact some of the 16.5 million Americans who have been purged from the voter rolls, helping them to re-establish their voter registration. The interns all live in or attend a college in Georgia, North Carolina, or Florida; 80 percent of them attend a historically Black college or university (HBCU). In addition, they attend presentations by guest speakers on topics including gerrymandering, the importance of state legislatures, how to run for political office, careers in politics, and the state of democracy and voting in NC, GA, and FL.
