{"id":2924,"date":"2016-04-06T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:07:38","slug":"lizzy-stephan-11-puts-her-passion-to-work-as-new-eras-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2016\/04\/06\/lizzy-stephan-11-puts-her-passion-to-work-as-new-eras-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Stephan \u201911 Puts Her Passion to Work as New Era\u2019s New Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Monica Black \u201919<\/strong><\/p>\n

CC\u2019s prestigious Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) has produced scores of young leaders who go on to develop the nonprofit sector in Colorado and beyond. One such impressive fellow is Lizzy Stephan \u201911, who was recently named director of New Era Colorado, an organization dedicated to increasing political participation among youth in Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work at New Era because I believe in the power of democracy to create change, and I believe in the power of young people to accelerate that change,\u201d says Stephan. \u201cI\u2019ve long believed that young people deserve a real seat at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Era\u2019s work includes developing innovative solutions to voter registration problems and advocacy work to bring preregistration and online registration to the state of Colorado. The organization made headlines in 2013 when it spearheaded an effort in Boulder to engage youth in a movement to divest from coal and switch to renewable energy sources, pushing back against the energy monopoly in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Era is celebrating our 10th anniversary this year, and we\u2019re now one of the largest young voter mobilization programs in the country,\u201d said Stephan. Stephan was named director this March<\/a>, and she\u2019ll be taking over as the nation heads into the election season. \u201cWe\u2019re poised to run our largest statewide voter registration, education, and turnout efforts to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephan was a sociology major at CC, co-chaired EnAct for a year, and interned in the Office of Sustainability. She was also always involved in politics, participating in the 2010 midterm election campaign efforts and pushing the school to make responsible investments.<\/p>\n

These activities also inspired her career. \u201cStudying sociology at Colorado College made me impatient with and unaccepting of \u2018the way things are,\u2019\u201d says Stephan. \u201cAt New Era, we\u2019re more driven by \u2018the way things could be.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephan was a two-time fellow through PIFP. \u201cMy first PIFP placement showed me that it was possible to make a career out of the full-time pursuit of social change.\u201d Stephan later worked at the Bell Policy Center, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing opportunity for all in the state of Colorado. Through these fellowships, she developed a passion for politics as the vehicle for change.<\/p>\n

To this day, Stephan loves her job: \u201cI feel more like I\u2019m obsessively pursuing a hobby than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Monica Black \u201919 CC\u2019s prestigious Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) has produced scores of young leaders who go on to develop the nonprofit sector in Colorado and beyond. One such impressive fellow is Lizzy Stephan \u201911, who was recently named director of New Era Colorado, an organization dedicated to increasing political participation among youth … <\/p>\n

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