State of the Union October 2025

 

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Political Affairs Team

Suyash Tawde met with MP Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)

Jasmine Phibbs with her brother after attending a surgery with MP Alison Bennett (Mid Sussex)

Julianna Stroemple birddogging  via IG Live with Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)

Sana Mohammed meeting with MP Alistair Strathern (Hitchin)

Agamya Khurana and some friends attended an event where they met MPP Effie Triantafilopoulos (Oakville North-Burlington)

Clariska Iskandar met with Representative Pete Aguilar’s (D-CA-33) Constituent Services Representative, Marcopolo Anzora

Sofia Ruiz had a virtual meeting with  MP Rachael Maskell (York Centre)

 

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

    • Big Kahuna Award (raised $5,000 or more):
      • Nonprofit Leadership Team: Brenda Williams
    • Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):
      • Political Team: Ashton Christo, Elliott Evrard-Vescio, Usha Bhusal, Tobias Holme, Nicole Hadar
    • Bird-Dog Award:
      • Political Team: Agamya Khurana, Treena Bolin, Jackson Mayer, Lillian Woodard, Anika Poythress
    • Article of the Month: Poverty, Power and Organ Trafficking in China by Nicole Fernandez

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

Getting the Word Out

Content Team

Alyse Rhee

Political Affairs Team

Jasmine Phibb delivering an online presentation

Emily Isaac’s Presentation

 

Eman Ansari’s Information Event

Treena Bolin presented to Daniels Ranch Council and a local book club

Julianna Stroemple tabling outside her library

1-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

Political Affairs Team

Usha Bhusal’s one-mile campaign in San Francisco, California

Jackson Mayer implemented his one-mile campaign in Washington, DC

Treena Bolin’s One-mile campaign in Seattle, Washington

Vanessa Garcia implemented her one-mile campaign in Miami, Florida

Jasmine Phibbs 1-Mile Campaign

Muniba Anwar presented to the Muslim Students Association at her university

Nonprofit Leadership Team

Brenda Williams implemented her one-mile campaign in a local park

Content Team

Alice Haston

 

Letters to the Editor

NonProfit Leadership Team

PR/Marketing Team

Content Team

Political Affairs Team

Fundraising

Content Team

Grace Gonzalez held a bake sale for her fundraising campaign

Political Affairs Team

Treena Bolin did a lot of dog walking for her fundraising

Allie McGuigan held an art sale for her fundraising

 

 

 

Political Affairs Team member, Julianna Stroemple’s held a Battle of the Bands event for her fundraising. The event raised $472 for the Borgen Project. Julianna was also able to talk to the audience about foreign assistance and what we can do to help the world’s poorf at the beginning, middle, and end of the show.

Agamya Khurana has been doing henna for her fundraiser

Nicholas Killen spent several hours cleaning out his parent’s basement in exchange for a donation

 

Tobias Holme and Emily Dotson held a concert fundraiser. They raised $600 from the event, had 120 paying attendees. They had two different University of Denver newspapers attend the event and post articles discussing The Borgen Project and putting links to email/donate in the articles!

Advocate Team

Olivia Kinsley held a yard sale for her fundraiser

 

Videos

Political Affairs Team

Agamya Khurana

Eman Ansari

Lauren Lunshof

Avery Prewitt

Eeshan Lal

Maria Seidel

Eeshan Lal