State of the Union February 2024

 

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in Janaury: 32
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2024: 32
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2024: 390

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in January: 4,552
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2024: 4,552
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2024: 84,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 65%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Senior Program Manager Amy Jenkins, Boyana Nikolova and Samantha Morales met with Representative Crow’s [(D-CO-6) Senior Legislative Assistant, Mackenzie Fallt.

Senior Program Manager Amy Jenkins and Kylie Burgel met with Drew Martineau, Senator Brown’s (D-OH) Legislative Assistant.

Senior Program Manager Amy Jenkins, Alex Li and Amman Alkayal met with Senator Warren’s (D-MA) Legislative Correspondent, Nikhil Srinivasan.

Jenkin (Santos) Yuen had a lobbying meeting with MP Chrystia Freeland’s Constituency Manager (Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister)

Regional Director Lucrezia Gentili held a lobbying meeting with MP Stephen Timms (Labour, East Ham)

Political Affairs Team member, Diya Thomas met with her MP, Annelise Dodds (Labour and Co-operative, Oxford East)

 

Updates from DC

Listen in to hear all of the latest updates from DC.

 

Recognition

Congratulations to the following team members who have achieved Borgen Project Honors & Recognition

Visit the Our Team Members page and read about success stories with our organization.

Getting the Word Out

Swarms

PR/Marketing Team member Francis Nwobodo in the UK mobilizing the community

 

Information Events

Political Affairs Team member Swalha Ali Abdulcadir tabling an event to mobilize in the UK

Political Affairs Team member Robert Hill presented to 2 classes in Georgia

 

One-Mile Campaigns

Political Affairs Team members:

Eleanor Anderson in Minnesota

Alejandra Contreras in Downtown LA

Norhan Abdelaziz in Sevenoaks, Kent, UK

Natalie Bookout completed her 1 mile campaign in Charlotte, NC

Yi Nian Mercedes Cheung in County Durham, UK

Rosmond Thomas, New York, NY

Akhil Ponnam completed his campaign in VA

Martha Ross-Smith completed her campaign in Hitchin, UK

Amy Stoneman completed her campaign in Newcastle, UK

Parth Nikalje completed the campaign in Bristol, UK

 

 

 

PR/Marketing Team:

Bianka Nemesova

Amelia Beuscher hanging posters at her college campus

Nonprofit Leadership Team:

Dawson Schatz completed his campaign around the local office of Representative Peters

Madelyn Snyder

 

 

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

 

Political Affairs Team member Anisa Rashid created this infographic to share around her university campus

PR/Marketing Team member Lila Russell is focusing on The MINDS Act

PR/Marketing Team member Anna Barbour has done an amazing job on her outreach materials for The SAFE Act

PR/Marketing Team member Brianna Boen in support of The SAFE Act

Political Affairs Team member Piper Treacy

Nonprofit Leadership Team member Yijun Ni

Nonprofit Leadership Team member Udita Das created this great photo for her outreach

Content Team member, Arman Ahmed

Content Team member Abraham Ikongshul

Fundraising

Content Team member, Sam Waterkeyn cycled from London to Land’s End over the course of 5 days. Same rode over 300 miles and raise £500.

Political Affairs Team member Olivia Shipman completed a winter swim fundraiser in the UK – very brave! 🥶

PR/Marketing Team member Lila Russell started her fundraising campaign with a bang!

 

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

 

Videos

Political Team

Camila Tinjaca Pino

Benjamin Luu

Bisrat Muluneh

Jack Evans

Olivia Shipman

PR/Marketing Team

Amelia Beuscher

Anna Barbour

Brianna Boen

Lila Russell

Gabriel Seriki