Get Out the Vote: A How-To Guide

Описание: The upcoming election is critical, but fewer than two-thirds of eligible voters are expected to cast ballots. How can voter turnout be encouraged? Field experiments have become increasingly important ways of studying political behavior and guiding campaigns. Join us for an opportunity to hear political science Professor Donald Green, Mark Mullen, and Jess Morales Rocketto discuss new concepts for increasing voter turnout, and the experiments that prove they are effective.

Donald P. Green is J. W. Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2011. Between 1989 and 2011, Professor Green taught at Yale University and directed its Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Professor Green is the author of four books and more than one hundred scholarly articles spanning a range of topics including voting behavior, mass media, partisanship, and hate crime. Much of his current work uses field experimentation to study the ways in which media messages mobilize and persuade. He is co-author of the textbook Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He co-founded the Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association and served as its first president.

Originally from Dallas, Mark Mullen lives in San Francisco where he founded Turnout Nation. His lifelong work has focused on new ways to build and strengthen communities that value and promote civic engagement. Turnout Nation is a community of people who take on the responsibility to help ten people to vote in a clear organized way. After graduating from Wesleyan University he lived in Tokyo, Malawi, Palestine and for many years in Tbilisi, Georgia. There he worked for NDI.org, started Transparency.ge, Orbeliani.net and Radarami.org. He enjoys swimming, books, taking walks with his kids and writing about himself in the third person.

Jess Morales Rocketto is the Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Executive Director of Care in Action, where she spearheads political advocacy campaigns on economic justice, immigration reform, sexual harassment, and the future of work for the 2.5 million domestic workers in this country. She is also the Chair of Families Belong Together, the campaign to end family separation, and We Belong Together, NDWA's feminist campaign for immigration reform. Jess is an alumna of Hillary for America, the AFL-CIO, Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee, Rebuild the Dream, and the New Organizing Institute. You can follow her on Twitter at @Jesslivmo.

Juju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline. She also reports regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20. Chang joined ABC News as an entry level desk assistant in 1987 and rose to become a producer for World News Tonight. Her first on-air job was reporting for KGO-TV in San Francisco. After a year in Washington, D.C. covering the White House, Capitol Hill and the presidential election for NewsOne, she co-anchored the overnight show World News Now. Chang’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and a Peabody. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science and communication. She is married to WNET President and CEO Neal Shapiro and together they have three sons. Chang is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.

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