Andrea Hailey

Vote.org was recognized by the 30th Annual Webby Awards with a Webby People’s Voice Award for Responsible Information!

At a time when misinformation and disinformation is one of the greatest threats to civic participation I’m proud that Vote.org is recognized for delivering accurate, trustworthy information to voters across the country. 🎉

I spoke with the Columbia university students leading their on-campus voter registration program, Columbia Votes , last week. I was beyond impressed.

This student organization has been registering voters, distributing absentee ballot materials, running competitive turnout challenges across campus, and hosting weekly open meetings on voting rights since 2018. This is all nonpartisan, and all student-led.

They’ve even built their own Elections Database so Columbia students can find local races and know exactly how to cast a ballot. That is their very own civic infrastructure, and we at Vote.org are here to support, encourage, and amplify this kind of impact.

So proud of the youth of this generation. Let’s support them into these Midterms.

Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with law students at Duke University School of Law. Duke Law

We talked about the incredible opportunity and profound responsibility that comes with defending every American’s right to vote, especially in a time when access to the ballot faces mounting challenges. Their thoughtful questions and commitment to justice is invigorating, reminds me exactly why this work matters and why I’m still hopeful for the future of our democracy.

About last night🖤 Our partners at put on a spectacular show every year. The energy in the room is unmatched. We have to keep showing up for each other.

Frieze has always understood that art is not decoration, it is the place a culture goes to tell the truth about itself, to grieve, to rage, to imagine the future. Vote.org exists because that truth-telling requires infrastructure: a functioning democracy, however imperfect, in which citizens retain the power to intervene in their own futures.

What links them is something more elemental than mission alignment: both exist because human beings require, at some deep level, to be heard, and both understand that this requirement does not take care of itself. We are living through a period in which the space to speak and the power to decide are being narrowed simultaneously, quietly, incrementally.

This artist, Patti Smith, whose artwork also lives in Vote.org’s Plan Your Vote campaign, spent fifty years proving that the Patti Smith has never separated making art from taking responsibility for the world she makes it in. That is the standard this moment sets for all of us. That is what this moment asks of all of us who work in and around culture: not neutrality, not aesthetics alone, but the courage to remember why any of it matters, and the will to act accordingly.

Incredible to be at Aspen Ideas with creatives, entrepreneurs and CEO’s dreaming up better futures & pushing beyond apathy, fear and uncertainty.

Let’s go Pacers!! 💛