Get Out the Vote 2024 with VALOR

Date

11/04/2024 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PST

Location

Online - recurring

Host(s)

Leah Aldridge, Grace Glaser

Presenter(s)

Zsanai Epps, Gretchen Barton, Holly Rider, Krista Colón, Julia Weber, Ponny White, and others to be announced.

Description

As one of the most influential election cycles of our lifetime accelerates with less than 80 days until November 5th, we hear your questions on how to vote for topics closest to you, like ending gender-based violence, societal and cultural violence, advancing reproductive justice, and preventing gun violence. We also hold these topics close to our hearts and are equally as concerned.

At VALOR, we recognize how daunting it is to discuss these topics with others who may or may not hold the same belief systems and that education on how we address these topics to shape our collective future as equitably as possible is needed.

VALOR is hosting a three-part educational web conference series with guest panelists who will address these and similar topics. The web conferences aim to prepare us to enter the election cycle ready to confidently use our Collective Voice. Collective Power. Collective Action. to advance the equitable world that we all strive to live in.

Descriptions:

1/3 - Advocating for Gender and Reproductive Justice: Get Out The Vote

Monday, September 9, 2024

TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

VALOR’s “Advocating for Gender and Reproductive Justice: Get Out the Vote,” the first of three web conferences in this series, will focus on reproductive freedoms, increasing state attacks on them, and criminalizing people seeking out care. Sexual assault survivors, folks with uteruses, women, and men, should have the ability to decide their healthcare, if and when to start a family, and how to raise their children.

Panelists include Zsanai Epps, Senior Director of Reproductive Justice Initiatives at Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWH), Gretchen Barton, Principal and Founder of Worthy Strategy Group, LLC, and Holly Rider, Director - Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Center at the University of Michigan.

2/3 - Preventing Gun Violence: Get Out The Vote

Monday, October 7, 2024

TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

VALOR’s “Preventing Gun Violence: Get Out the Vote,” our second web conference in this series, will focus on educating us on how gun culture in America is focused on reacting to rather than preventing violence. Gun-related violence against sexual assault survivors, domestic violence survivors, women, and children is pervasive, and although we have made strides to prevent gun violence, it is not enough.

Panelists include Krista Colón, Senior Director of Public Policy at the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and Julia Weber, Implementation Director of Giffords Law Center at Giffords.

3/3 - Gen Z Taking Action: Get Out The Vote

Monday, November 4, 2024

TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

VALOR’s “Gen Z Taking Action: Get Out the Vote,” our last web conference in this series, will focus on how much power younger voters hold to shape politics around what they care about: violence culture, climate change, queer rights, dismantling racist belief systems, Land Back, and no longer scapegoating minorities and immigrants.

Panelists include Ponny White, a youth and systems change advocate, Matthew Quitoriano, a high school student and advocate for health equity, Grace Friedman, Digital Director at Voters of Tomorrow, Alani Rouse, a community organizer, and others to be announced.

Learning Objectives

Understand important issues on your ballots and how the issues impact survivors of sexual violence.
Develop tips and talking points to educate your community about the 2024 election cycle.
Grow your network across the country to advance equity and end sexual violence.