🌁 Spend Tuesday with The Working Families Party

Buenos Días,

Find us in the Mission with the Working Families Party! We’re kicking off our series of voter outreach workshops with the San Francisco Working Families Party this Tuesday at 6pm with a chance to brush up on your canvassing skills at Changing Minds & Connecting with Voters.

• Date: Tuesday, February 24
• Time: 6:00—7:30pm PST
• Where: 518 Valencia

📒 Plus! Everyone will receive an exclusive copy of our brand new zine on Deep Canvassing! Be the 1st of your friends to show off your deep canvassing skills.

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Changing Minds & Connecting with Voters

Get ready for the midterms with the Working Families Party! Learn or deepen your canvassing and phone banking skills and learn how deep canvassing can help persuade and win votes. In the first of a series of trainings, learn how minds change, tips for applying deep canvassing to your voter outreach, and practice with fellow canvassers and phonebankers.

First time with voter outreach? This session is a great entryway to building your confidence. Whether you’re looking to brush up on your skills, reconnect with voter outreach, or are a seasoned vet, this session will get you ready for the doors and phones. (Door knocking technique lessons not included.) 

What to Expect:

• Reflecting on Canvassing & Phonebanking
• How Persuasion Works: Changing Minds
• Tips for Deep Canvassing
• Practice Time with small groups
• Reflections and Deeper Learning
• Tips for Future Practice

Meet Your Facilitator: Sam Chavez (she/they/he) is a storyteller, organizer, and curious human. After 15+ years at global advertising agencies, she founded the roots of change agency, a communications agency and media ecosystem for activists, organizers, and communicators. Her political career began as an Obama delegate at the Texas State Convention in 2008. More recently she trained and organized with Swing Left, The Bay Area Coalition, and the Arizona Native Democrats in 2020, 2022, & 2024. Sam is a two spirit (trans & indigenous) activist who’s passionate about a livable planet & equitable societies.