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We the People: Mobilizing Voters, Strengthening Voting Rights & Combating Voter Suppression
Award-winning community organizer and political strategist LATOSHA BROWN discusses the biggest existential threat to American democracy in modern times: infringements on the guaranteed right to vote. Since 2014, over 33M American citizens have been dropped from voting rolls. Most have been moved from the rolls due to a resurgence of voter suppression tactics and politics. Minority voters have been intentionally targeted with these efforts and are disproportionately impacted.
In this hopeful call for change, Brown lays out how, as voters and citizens, we can solve the voter suppression issue in ways that not only protects the right to vote but ultimately strengthens our democracy. Brown poses to audiences some of the most critical questions of our day:
Trends in America’s Shifting Political Landscape
Award-winning community organizer and political strategist LATOSHA BROWN has seen America’s political landscape shift in both the global and domestic arenas in ways that threaten the foundation of this country as being a democratic nation. Brown explains the passage and implementation of deeply troubling policies, state sanctioned acts, and legislation that impact the civil and human rights of immigrant groups, women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community.
Culture & Context Matters: Building Political Power through Storytelling and Strategic Messaging
Award-winning community organizer and political strategist LATOSHA BROWN proposes ways to rebuild trust in the American democratic system. Looking ahead, Brown discusses the impact of an era where people are receiving information and developing political ideologies through non-vetted social media outlets, political soundbites, and opinion-based news networks.
The Power of Historically Disenfranchised Voters
Political organizer LATOSHA BROWN identifies the impact of historically disenfranchised voters on this election cycle and beyond, considering America’s ongoing demographic shifts. Brown examines the factors propelling increased representation, the impact of identity on the national political landscape, and differences between previous and current social movements.
LaTosha Brown activates voters for the 2024 election
Award-winning community organizer and political strategist LATOSHA BROWN addresses the ways voter disengagement threatens the foundations of this country. She empowers audiences to acknowledge and call out the challenges to democracy we are witnessing today. Brown highlights that while times are complicated, LaTosha offers a hopeful call for change by envisioning a path forward.
LaTosha Brown wins major Civil Rights Advocate Award
Award-winning community organizer and political strategist LATOSHA BROWN has been honored by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law honored Brown with the Civil Rights Advocate Award for her work in grassroots community organization. Brown is a Harvard Kennedy School of Government Fellow, board member of the National Coalition on Black Civic Engagement (NCBCP), and co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, a power-building, southern-based civic engagement organization. Throughout her career, Brown has distinguished herself as a trusted expert and resource in political strategy, rural development, and special programming for several national and regional philanthropies.
Watch LaTosha Brown give Pitzer College’s commencement speech >>
LaTosha Brown is an award-winning visionary thought leader, institution builder, Cultural Activist and Artist, and Connector. She is a nationally recognized, “go-to” expert in Black Voting Rights and Voter Suppression, Black Women’s Empowerment, and Philanthropy.
LaTosha is the Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter Fund and Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute. These initiatives are designed to boost Black voter registration and turnout, as well as increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities.
LaTosha is also the Visionary, Founder and Co-Anchor of a regional network called the Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium. This is $100 million, 10-year initiative to invest in organizations that serve Black women and girls. The goal of the consortium is to create a new approach to philanthropy by allowing every component of the program, inception to execution, to be created by Black girls and women in the South.
Ms. Brown is also the 2020 Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, the 2020 Leader in Practice at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, and a 2020-2021 American Democracy fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard.
What’s Next?
LaTosha has worked in 23 different countries to include Kenya, Guyana, and Brazil. Her next mission involves resourcing and empowering women across the Diaspora. “I don’t want women to be seen as victims; they are the problem solvers for the world. I am convinced that Black Women are going to liberate the world!”
In the Media
Ms. Brown has received numerous awards and accolades for her work. She has been featured on ABC, CBS, CNN, Democracy Now, and PBS. Her Op-Eds have been showcased in the New York Times, Politico and Essence. Her work has also been highlighted in several docuseries: What’s Eating America?, American Swamp, and Finding Justice. To learn more about LaTosha, please visit www.latoshabrown.com
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