{"id":11698,"date":"2019-02-24T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2019-07-05T23:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T23:32:33","slug":"2019-03-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-03-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Secular Political Clout: The Path to a Secular Voting Bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Sarah Levin<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., March 10, 2019 (NOTE: Daylight Savings Time begins on this day)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Levin is the young, dynamic Director of Grassroots and Community Programs at the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) in Washington, DC. The Secular Coalition represents U.S. Atheist, Humanist, Skeptic, Freethought, and other secular organizations in promoting a secular agenda in the US Congress and throughout the U.S. Government. Sarah will give an update on SCA\u2019s important lobbying work on our behalf on Capital Hill. She will present SCA\u2019s Secular Values Voter campaign, a long-term vision to build and mobilize a cohesive, influential secular voting bloc. This action-oriented presentation is geared toward individuals and community organizers looking for ways to get more involved in political advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Levin graduated cum laude with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in International Studies from American University, where she was President of the Secular Student Alliance. She served in AmeriCorps, and joined the Secular Coalition in 2013. Since then she has managed and expanded the Secular Coalition\u2019s State Advocacy Program and implemented innovative grassroots campaigns at national and state levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-300x274.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-300x274.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-150x137.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-768x703.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-1024x937.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sarah-Levin-in-SCA-Shirt-1200x1098.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/345506405\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/345506405\">Building Secular Political Clout: The Path to a Secular Voting Bloc<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/259249869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Levin 11 a.m., March 10, 2019 (NOTE: Daylight Savings Time begins on this day) Sarah Levin is the young, dynamic Director of Grassroots and Community Programs at the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) in Washington, DC. The Secular Coalition represents U.S. Atheist, Humanist, Skeptic, Freethought, and other secular organizations in promoting a secular agenda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-03-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building Secular Political Clout: The Path to a Secular Voting Bloc&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12164,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions\/12164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}