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Rachel Earnest has racked up $5 million in medical bills since she became an adult. She\u2019s been diagnosed with lupus, received two hip replacements, been forced to carry around an oxygen tank, and is regularly worried whether she\u2019ll have insurance to cover the care she needs to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealing with all of this by your 30s is enough to discourage anyone. But Earnest was inspired to run for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am running because I believe that health care is a human right. I am running because I have needed health care to be a human right,\u201d she told dozens of women who also planned to run for office during a recent multi-city workshop at WeWork 80 M St SE<\/a> in Washington, D.C, held by campaign and leadership program VoteRunLead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earnest\u2019s workshop was just one of VoteRunLead\u2019s 20 concurrent training sessions, nearly all of which took place at WeWork locations in cities nationwide, from Atlanta to Seattle and everywhere in between. More than 1,400 women attended, all with the goal to learn how to run for office\u2014and win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VoteRunLead, which trains women to run for office, was founded in 2014 by Erin Vilardi<\/a>, a member at New York City\u2019s WeWork 8 W 126th St<\/a> in Harlem. With VoteRunLead, Vilardi set out to change the fact that despite making up 70 percent of Americans, women and people of color then held only a third of elected<\/a> positions. Today, having trained more than 35,000 women (including Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Ohio Representative Lauren Underwood<\/a>), VoteRunLead is the country\u2019s largest and most diverse initiative of its kind. It\u2019s also effective: The organization notes that 80 percent<\/a> of their alumnae advanced in the 2018 primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over six hours, event attendees participated in panel discussions, workshops, group activities, and networking sessions led by six VoteRunLead trainers, as well as local and national politicians, strategists, and business leaders. Advice ranged from practical (\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to have coffee with public officials you admire\u201d) to humorous (\u201cRewatch Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em>\u201d) and also the inspirational (\u201cNever apologize for your ambition\u201d). Read on for four of the day\u2019s key takeaways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Above and below) Scenes from VoteRunLead’s New York workshop, held at WeWork 8 W 126th St in Harlem. Photographs courtesy of VoteRunLead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re qualified to lead right now\u2014not after some future milestone<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The challenge with getting women into public office isn\u2019t that they don\u2019t win\u2014female candidates win at the same rates<\/a> as their male counterparts\u2014it\u2019s that they don\u2019t run. Only 57 percent<\/a> of women in careers that often lead to politics (law, business, or activism) think they\u2019re qualified to run for office, compared to 73 percent of men. More generally, women are also less likely<\/a> to consider running for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VoteRunLead trainers emphasized to participants that women don\u2019t need to wait for another promotion or degree\u2014they\u2019re already<\/em> qualified to run for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are ready to run now, based on your life experiences and with your own powerful story,\u201d Jehmu Greene, a media and advocacy strategist, recent candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee, and founding member of VoteRunLead, told the dozen women gathered at Austin\u2019s WeWork 600 Congress Ave<\/a>, just blocks from the state\u2019s capitol. \u201cThis is the pink wave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A female candidate\u2019s most potent weapon is her story\u2014and it just might give her an edge on the competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe [difference] between male and female candidates is that we run for a reason. We run to change our community. We run to tell our story,\u201d said Katie Groke-Ellis, a VoteRunLead certified national trainer, in D.C. <\/strong>\u201cWe are more real in public. We tell our stories in a more authentic way, and we\u2019re more vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stories of the women in attendance were indeed potent. In Washington, college student Halle Gugsa, whose family found safety in the U.S. after a crackdown on dissent forced them to flee Ethiopia, said she wanted to run because she found today\u2019s anti-immigrant rhetoric discouraging. Evelyn Baker, meanwhile, is about to retire from her job as a senior budget analyst for the federal government. Upon her retirement, she plans to return to her hometown in Arkansas to launch a second career running for the school board, then city council, then mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incoming college freshman Ashley Santiago attended the Los Angeles event at WeWork Gas Company Tower<\/a> in the Bunker Hill neighborhood. \u201cI see a lot of people who look like me who don\u2019t have a lot of opportunities,\u201d said Santiago, who plans to one day run for city council to help the Latinx community. \u201cWe are underrepresented and underestimated, and we need to start seeing ourselves in leadership roles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At New York\u2019s WeWork 500 7th Ave<\/a>, Althea Stevens, running for New York City Council, shared her story of becoming pregnant at age 16 and raising her child as a single parent. The challenges she faced led her to take the LSAT, go back to school to receive a master\u2019s degree in Urban Affairs, and become director of a Bronx-based nonprofit working with children\u2014and are also what motivated her to run for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the personal details that voters remember, and women shouldn\u2019t shy away from sharing them when crafting their stump speeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never compromise your story, even under pressure of public scrutiny<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo not start changing your viewpoint or what you\u2019re passionate about to make other people vote for you,\u201d advised Groke-Ellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Austin, trainer Adrienne Bell, a fourth-grade teacher who ran for Congress in Texas\u2019 14th District, shared her story with trainees. \u201cI spent three months in a women\u2019s shelter because of an abusive marriage, and I\u2019ve been bankrupt,\u201d she said. \u201cMy opponents may want to use that against me, but that\u2019s my story, and I\u2019m not afraid to tell it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay true to your beliefs and your political affiliation <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about all of us agreeing on the same issue and all thinking the same way,\u201d said Crystal Patterson, VoteRunLead board chair and Facebook’s government and politics outreach manager. \u201cWe\u2019re stronger when we have different viewpoints at the table.\u201d As a nonpartisan organization, VoteRunLead is committed to getting women into office on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all part of what makes VoteRunLead an ideal partner for WeWork. \u201cWhat VoteRunLead does is so parallel to what WeWork does,\u201d said Hannah Schon, <\/strong>who leads community events at Austin\u2019s WeWork 600 Congress Ave<\/a> and helped organize the location\u2019s VoteRunLead event. \u201cVoteRunLead helps women connect with others who will support them in their goals and provides them with information and a community. Similarly, WeWork creates an environment for people to come together, get engaged with each other, and create something. It\u2019s a natural fit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With additional reporting by Kavita Daswani in Los Angeles, Ashley Edwards in New York<\/em>, and Tula Karras in Austin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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