Empowering Local Citizens Through Deep Canvassing

In collaboration with several local grass-roots organizations and political leaders in Durham, Hannah created a proposal for a Pop-Up Vaccination Clinic at the Bus Station in downtown. The plan won the support of Bull City Votes and Durham Drives, as well as then Mayor of Durham Steve Schewel and the leadership of the Durham Regional Hospital. Although the proposal was ultimately not implemented, Hannah’s insights into deep canvassing and how to empower local citizens helped her become a leader of the Bass provisional ballot research team during the 2021-2022 academic year. (See Hannah’s deep canvassing training video on behalf of Bull City Votes here. Hannah’s skills as an interviewer of disfranchised student voters at NC Central were foundational to her team’s research which was published as an article in the Rutgers Law Review in the summer of 2022. You can see Hannah present her research and its implications at the recent Student Voting Rights Event. She presents at the 22-minute mark, after PEP fellow Jimmy Toscano: https://youtu.be/0E8dk2l8EMk