Last month we launched a scholarship program with a few other netroots organizations to send three marriage equality online activists to Netroots Nation in Las Vegas. After myself and a panel of other judges (Markos/DailyKos, Julia Rosen/Courage Campaign, Rod McCollum/Rod 2.0, Joe Sudbay/AMERICABlog, Alex Blaze/Bilerico Project) narrowed the voting field, we have a set of ten finalists.
We’re now opening up the voting to you in the netroots. You can check out their applications here. We’ve posted videos, blog posts and answers to questions on how they would advance the freedom to marry for same-sex couples on the page so you can have a little background. You can vote once every 24 hours for one person. If you have a friend or someone who’s work you like, feel free to spread the word online to garner votes for him/her.
There really are some great contestants- some folks whose work I’m familiar with and some others who look like they would really benefit from the experience and help build our movement back home. There’s also a lot of geographic diversity, which really is awesome. You can check them out and go vote here. Voting ends on June 25th.
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