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Due to the ongoing pandemic and a rise in voter suppression, the need for poll workers is now more essential than ever! They help to ensure that our elections are efficient, safe, and secure. That's why you’re invited to an Andrew Goodman Puffin Democracy Fellow Workshop: How To Start A Poll Worker Project, led by Evan Wayne Malbrough, an Andrew Goodman Puffin Democracy Fellow, Andrew Goodman Alumnus, and the Founder of the Georgia Youth Poll Worker Project. Evan will lead an in-depth talk on how he launched the Georgia Youth Poll Worker Project and recruited 1,000 poll workers in time for the 2020 Election and how Alumni and Ambassadors like YOU can start a poll worker project of your own on your campus and in your community.
Evan Wayne Malbrough, a native of Smyrna, Georgia, is an honors graduate with a degree in Public Policy from Georgia State University. He was a Research Fellow at the Department of Defense, where he was in the Office of Legal Policy & the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness. Evan was a Research Assistant in Extremist Media Studies in the Global Studies Institute at Georgia State University. He analyzed the media of groups such as ISIS, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, and Boko Haram. Evan has previously interned for the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, the Public Defender’s Council, and the Office of Congressman David Scott. He is the recipient of the Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon Human Rights Scholarship and the PMAP Leadership Award. He has also served as the 2017-2018 President of the Young Democrats of Georgia State University, an Amazon Prime Student Ambassador, and an Andrew Goodman Ambassador. Evan was a member of the Clinton Global Initiative where he worked on Prison Education reform, which includes working in a writing studio for inmates at Metro Reentry Facility. He is a founding member of Vote Everywhere GSU, an on-campus student group that organized the first-ever student-run polling location in the state of Georgia. As a graduate, Evan is the Founder of the Georgia Poll Youth Poll Worker Project and the Founding Coordinator of the Georgia Civic Campus Network.
The Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) works with America's colleges and universities to provide resources, visibility and mentoring to a national network of students who are committed to engaging their peers in participatory democracy through long-term voter engagement, public policy and social justice initiatives.
Learn more about their work at www.andrewgoodman.org