NAWL Podcast

Empowering Elections: The Crucial Role of Volunteers

Episode Summary

Join us for today’s episode hosted by Sara Wilson from We The Action, as she delves into the significance of elections, voting rights, and the power of volunteering with Lindsay Langholz from the American Constitution Society. Lindsay highlights ACS’s final push efforts in the crucial last stretch of the presidential election season and underscores the vital role volunteers play. Listen in to discover how you can get involved in safeguarding our elections and where to get started.

Episode Notes

Join us for today’s episode hosted by Sara Wilson from We The Action, as she delves into the significance of elections, voting rights, and the power of volunteering with Lindsay Langholz from the American Constitution Society. Lindsay highlights ACS’s final push efforts in the crucial last stretch of the presidential election season and underscores the vital role volunteers play. Listen in to discover how you can get involved in safeguarding our elections and where to get started.

 

Sara Wilson, a lover of life's oddities and an advocate for just causes, has built her career conducting legal work across the nation. Whether practicing public defense in Massachusetts, assisting unaccompanied migrant children in Texas, or leading Voter Protection in Arizona, Wilson is on the front lines of protecting our fundamental rights. The phrase pro bono —for the public good— has been the essence of Wilson's work as an attorney. Today, Wilson serves this mission with We The Action where, as Associate Director of Legal Partnerships, she connects volunteer lawyers to the causes they care about. Wilson is a graduate of Indiana University - Bloomington and Suffolk University Law School in Boston. 

 

Lindsay Langholz is Senior Director of Policy and Program at the American Constitution Society. She is the organization's policy expert on voting rights and democracy and primary host of the Broken Law podcast.