Posts by Democracy Summer interns and others.
No air condition, ACORN showing on caller ids, my citizenship being questioned. Needless to say this has been an interesting start to Democracy Summer. Being a part of the AMAZING QC team, we had to set up shop in the ACORN office. The first day, Sarah and I arrived within 10 minutes of each other [...]
Air conditioner-less and ACORN-enhanced, the Charlotte week kicked off to a phenomenal start. Early Monday morning, America and I arrived …to the parking lot. At the time, we had no keys, thus no way into the building, which we share with ACORN…but more on that later. However, we set our goals and discussed future plans [...]
At the home office in Durham last night we had our first evening of phone banking. Cristina and Brian did a rock star job reaching out to supporters we haven't heard from in a while to see if they are still interested in election reform. Overall, responses from our long lost friends were pretty positive [...]
DURHAM: As I drove to the Democracy NC office on my first official day as an intern, I couldn’t help but wonder what I would do for the next eight hours. Eight hours is a pretty long time! Would I have enough things to do during that time? My last full-time job consisted of me [...]
Initially, I was really apprehensive about the retreat experience. It was a mixture of nervousness and excitement as I wondered who I would meet and whether or not my fellow Dem NC team members would embrace me. Now mind you, I am by no means a outdoors person and the whole thought of camping at [...]
After nearly three days together, the Democracy Summer 2009 class is really coming together as a team. This was evident in Friday’s team-building exercises and the Family Feud style game show interns played at the retreat’s end to test their knowledge of what they had learned. Before that, however, Friday was full of more background [...]
Day Two of our Democracy Summer retreat was a long day of learning more about the fundamentals of what we do, the nuances of communicating our mission to the public and more. The day included training in such areas as phone banking, coalition building, conducting one-on-one meetings and understanding our nonpartisan focus. Student organizers also [...]
Democracy Summer officially began on Wednesday, May 27th when ten outstanding college students chosen from colleges across North Carolina arrived at Chestnut Ridge Camp & Retreat Center near Efland for a 3-day training retreat with Democracy North Carolina staff. By 10:00 AM, with everyone unpacked and moved into their cabins, student organizers introduced [...]