The Teach a Kid to Vote Challenge
The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) uses a mobile “Story Cart” to engage people of all ages in conversations about voting by reaching them outside traditional academic settings.
The initiative was created to include perspectives from people with lived experiences who are often not heard in lectures or online discussions.
In 2024, the project focused on the theme “Trust and the Vote” through the Teach a Kid to Vote Challenge, encouraging public understanding of the democratic process. The project involved designing promotional materials like T-shirts and stickers with slogans to engage kindergartners from UWM Children’s Learning Center, C21 staff, and the broader Milwaukee community around the theme “Nourishing Trust.”
For this project, I focused on “nourishing trust” through the lens of a children’s story book aesthetic. With my design I wanted to invoke that warm but exciting feeling of reading a story with a parent. In a imaginative story-book world, the parent teaches the child to read, but in return, the child teaches the parent to use their imagination. The design can inspire people, young and old, to take a hold of their own world and vote!