Democracy Summer Fellows 2022
To apply to be a 2022 Democracy Summer Fellow with Jim McGovern for Congress, please submit an application HERE. The application deadline is March 15, 2022, and the program will take place from June 20 to July 31.
Democracy Summer 2022 will be hybrid (virtual and in person), and high school and college students are encouraged to apply.
Jim McGovern for Congress will be an official 2022 Democracy Summer partner!
The Democracy Summer project seeks to bring about political change in America by training and deploying the next generation of Democratic organizers and leaders to win elections at every level. This one-of-a-kind Democratic Fellowship—founded by Congressman Jamie Raskin but now undertaken across the country—teaches high school and college students state-of-the-art tactics in voter registration and political organizing, the dynamic history of political and social change in our country, and essential lessons for political leadership.
Democracy Summer expanded nationally for the first time in 2021 in a historic partnership with the DCCC and campaigns of Democratic Members. Over 350 college and high school-aged students from 27 states participated as Fellows in our first nationwide virtual summer learning program and were trained simultaneously as organizers and volunteer activists in Democratic campaigns all over the country.
Now in 2022, we are poised for yet another massive expansion as we galvanize the next generation of true-blue Democrats in more than 50 campaigns of Democratic Members of Congress who have already signed up to participate in what many are calling the most important congressional election of our lifetime.
The theme of Democracy Summer 2022’s curriculum is “Political Democracy and its Enemies.” There will be readings and presentations about white supremacy and political democracy, the January 6 attacks, historic and contemporary struggles for voting rights, fascism and totalitarianism, and proposed changes to strengthen democratic processes in the future.
In prior years, the Program has also featured conversations on topics such as the climate crisis, gun violence prevention and the power of the NRA, the assault on reproductive freedom, wealth inequality and tax policy, immigration and refugee policy, the Electoral College and the National Popular Vote campaign, redistricting and gerrymandering, the domestic budget and the military budget, U.S. foreign policy and Congressional power to declare war, education policy, civil rights and civil liberties, and the continuing spread of voter suppression tactics in GOP-controlled state legislatures. Democracy Summer speakers have included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Civil Rights leaders Bob Moses and Rev. William J. Barber II, Prof. Laurence Tribe, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and many more.
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