Op-Ed: Too Young to Vote, Not Too Young to Fix Democracy
“We are high schoolers. We are college students. We are redrawing the lines.”
High school students Serena Pallan, Ananya Shah, and Zubin Rajesh met while working on gerrymandering research through IMD’s summer program, where they developed geometric proofs that create guidelines to determine what is political gerrymandering and what is a fair drawing of district lines. Now, together with fellow students Thea Vedula and Angelina Wang, they are translating their research into action.
In their recent op-ed for The Fulcrum, they share their plans to use a Carnegie Young Leaders for Civic Preparedness grant, awarded to 100 teams nationwide, to address gerrymandering by combining math with civic action. Through their work, they “hope to inspire local communities to challenge district lines that deny representation, states to establish independent redistricting commissions, and Congress to pass reforms that protect fair elections… mak[ing] change that lasts beyond news cycles and AP Government flashcards.”
Read more here: https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/gerrybuster-fix-democracy
