State of the Union July 2024

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

Total # of Lobbying Meetings in June: 30
Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2024: 233
Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2024: 390

Advocacy Emails

Total # of Advocacy Emails in June: 6,913
Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2024: 26,119
Advocacy Emails Goal for 2024: 84,000
% of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 94%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Carl Massad, Content Team Member met with Emma Bruce, Congressman Ami Bera’s (D-CA-06) Staff Director. The group discussed how to best move the End Tuberculosis Now Act forward in Congress

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member, Carter Rejman met with Brittany Adams, Defense Fellow for Senator Tester (D-MT)

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member, Reem Itani met with Connor Smith, Senator Fetterman’s (D-PA) Military Legislative Assistant.

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member, Cecilia Hult met with Sen. Whitehouse’s (D-RI) Legislative Correspondent, Jonathan Harris.

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team members, Isabella Rappaccioli and Libby Michael met with Jane Scarborough, Representative McCormick’s (R-GA-06) Legislative Correspondent

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member Alaina Tice met with Belle Martire, Legislative Correspondent in Senator Carper’s (D-DE) office.

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team members Ryan Patrick, Milena Baquerizo, Isabella Chow, Matthew Moy, Addie Tirone, Jickinson Louis, and Sofia Buziashvili met with Shyla Alam, Legislative Correspondent for Senator Schumer (D-NY).

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member, Scotty Cameron met with Nathan Mark, Foreign Policy Staffer for Senator Marshall (R-KS)

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member Danial Osmani met with Nicole Thompson in Senator Lujan’s (D-NM) office

Senior Program Manager, Amy Jenkins and Political Team member, Ben Suhrstedt met with Representative McMorris Rodgers’ (R-WA-05) Legislative Correspondent, Tyler Giuliacci.

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

- - Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):
    - Political Team: Blake Lee, Felipe Mancera, Courtney Brown
    - PR/Marketing Team: Connor Krings
    - Content Team: Paige Tamasi, Lauren Thompson, Maria Waleed
  - Bird-Dog Award:
    - Political Team: Elisabeth Flynn
  - Articles of the Month:
    - How Vaccine Microarray Patches Are Fighting for Vaccine Equity by Naomi Finapiri

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

REMINDER: JOIN OUR EXCITING SUMMER IMPACT CHALLENGE!

What is the Summer Impact Challenge?

This fun and engaging competition is designed to recognize and reward the hard work and dedication of our incredible team members. Throughout the summer, you’ll have the chance to participate in key activities that create a positive impact and win fantastic prizes!

How Does it Work?

Choose your challenge: Choose one challenge out of the three options below that you’d like to participate in:

o Mobilize

o Fundraise

o Write

Win Prizes: At the end of the competition, the top three team members will win exciting prizes!
There will be one winner per challenge, three winners in total. Please choose one challenge to dedicate your time to.
**The winners will win a trip and hotel stay to meet Clint Borgen in-person either for dinner or to participate in a lobbying event in Washington, D.C. or London!**

For more details, check the weekly newsletter!

Getting the Word Out

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

Political Team

Gulce Yegen – NY

Jemma Layden – Tavistock, UK

Fiona Specker – London, UK

Phoebe Wirick – London, UK

Serxhina Troka – London, UK

Sara Nasrallah – Montréal, Quebec

Regional Director, Sukhmanmeet Kaur in London, UK

Alyssa Rainey

PR/Marketing Team

Robert Marshall

Rahul Chaurasia

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Lily Pellillo Jackson Hole Daily
MillaMay Garrow Camden New Journal

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

Political Affairs Team member, Henry King – Oxford, UK

Political Affairs Team member, Henry Phelan

Regional Director, Ashton Christo

Fundraising

Political Affairs Team member, MillaMay Garrow, held a live charity gig in support of The Borgen Project at The Albany on June 19th. It was a huge success with over 40 people showing up and almost £300 being raised for The Borgen Project. Well done, MillaMay!!