Building a Team to Make Political Action Happen for $0

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As a former community organizer with the non-partisan Student PIRGs organization, Timothy Ross Thompson had a $0 budget (and a meager hourly rate) to recruit a team of college students that went on to register 900 students to vote at the University of Florida in 2020. Through strategic emailing, organizing virtual events, offering personal mentoring/support, creating competition, teaching himself graphic design, and leveraging small scale social media "influencers," they met and exceeded expectations for success in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker be discussing each of those aspects in detail, and teaching viewers how to make an impact with whatever time they have available.

After completing this activity, participants will be able to:

Determine an advocacy issue, audience, and goal
Build a foundation, succinct message, and team
Identify free web-based tools to maximize efforts
Determine how to incorporate phonebanking, social media, community partnerships, days of action, and competition into advocacy

Timothy Ross Thompson, OMS II
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Timothy Ross Thompson is a second-year osteopathic medical student at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has an undergraduate degree in political science and experience as a community organizer registering college students to vote. His research interests focus on public health and education and the places where they collide to improve patient care and relationships between patients and their physicians.