By Gwendolyn Owen
A national voting rights non-profit organization partnered with Mesa Community College to bring students to the Arizona State Capitol to encourage their civic engagement on April 15.
Fair Elections Center’s non-partisan Campus Vote Project invited students across Arizona to the State Capitol Building for a seven-hour day of learning where they met elected officials and saw how legislation is ratified, some for the first time. Eleven MCC students attended the event.
The peers from diverse backgrounds attended for an array of reasons, but the CVP coordinators had the collective purpose of exposing students to how democracy operates.
“Your voice matters so much beyond checking a box. You can influence the way policy happens,” said Emma Burns, Arizona coordinator for the Fair Elections Center, “you can talk to these folks, you can introduce legislation to elected officials and ask them to sponsor it if you want to. If you care about an issue, you can take it home.”
Read the full article in The Mesa Legend.
May 12, 2025.
