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Recognizing and Eliminating Barriers to Voter Registration and Participation (No CE Credit)
Part two of a four-part Advocacy Series
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NOTE: If you are interested in receiving CEs, this webinar is also available for a fee with the CEs option, here.
This webinar will cover the historic and current barriers that low-income people, ethnic minorities, senior citizens, current and formally incarcerated men and women and college students have faced when trying to exercise their right to vote. The presenters will discuss their respective efforts to eliminate these barriers both through legal actions, mobilization of concerned voter rights advocates, and lobbying to members of congress, and political leaders in states where barriers to voting participation has been identified.
Learning objectives:
- Become more informed about the history of major barriers to exercising the right to vote by many vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of our society - mostly people of color and women
- Gain specific knowledge about the most egregious barriers – such as lack of sufficient polling places, aggressive voter ID laws, and Gerrymandering- that lead to low voting rates for certain groups
- Learn about the efforts of ACLU and NAACP to eliminate intentional and unintentional barriers to voting access
- Learn about ways in which individual voter participation advocates and organizations can mobilize to limit barriers to voter registration and actual voting
Hilary O. Shelton
Hilary O. Shelton, presently serves as the Director to the NAACP's Washington Bureau / Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. Prior to serving as director to the NAACP Washington Bureau, Hilary served in the position of Federal Liaison/Assistant Director to the Government Affairs Department of The College Fund/UNCF, also known as The United Negro College Fund, in Washington, D.C. Before that, Hilary served as the Federal Policy Program Director to the 8.5 million-member United Methodist Churches' social justice advocacy agency, The General Board of Church & Society.
Jennifer Bellamy, J.D.
Jennifer Bellamy joined the ACLU in 2008 and serves as a legislative counsel in the organization’s Washington Legislative Office where she advocates on voting rights and a range of racial justice issues. Bellamy played a leadership role in the passage of the Fair Sentencing of 2010, which reduced the infamous and discriminatory sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine and begins to address some of the serious racial disparities plaguing the criminal justice system.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Bellamy served as policy advisor for World Vision, an international humanitarian organization serving in 100 countries. As policy advisor Bellamy lobbied the Department of Justice, the Department of State and Congress for stronger child protection policies. Bellamy also interviewed former child soldiers and human trafficking victims, meeting with members of the Rwandan, Kenyan, Ethiopian and Uganda Parliaments and local government leaders in Cambodia and Thailand to discuss strategies to reduce child exploitation.
Before entering the private sector, Bellamy served for three years as counsel to a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. Prior to working for Congress, Bellamy served as a judicial law clerk for various District Court of Maryland judges in Baltimore City.
Bellamy received her law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University where she was a Stancil Starnes Leadership Scholarship recipient and graduated from the University of Alabama-Birmingham with a B.A. in History.
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