This Thursday, Oprah Winfrey is hosting a virtual town hall in Georgia to encourage, inspire, and support Georgia voters ahead of the Special Election. The #OwnYourVote: Georgia on My Mind Zoom meeting is a free event and open to public in partnership with Kapor Center.

The event will take place live this Thursday, December 3 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. Registration is available in advance at zoomwithoprah.com. 

Oprah Winfrey’s Network ( OWN TV) continues with its nonpartisan OWN YOUR VOTE get-out-the-vote initiative as Oprah speaks with local voters from throughout the state of Georgia to ensure as many as possible are prepared with resources, information and inspiration ahead of the Special Election. Those joining the town hall will include local voters, along with national thought leaders, voting rights experts, and those who can provide resources and information for voters.

Speakers include:

·     Latosha Brown, Co-Founder, Black Voters Matters

·     Nse Ufot, Executive Director, New Georgia Project

·   Stefanie Brown James, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Collective Education Fund

·     Cheryl Lowery, The Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute

Additional, representatives from women’s organizations including Dr. Glenda Glover (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated); Beverly E Smith (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated); Melanie Campbell (Black Women’s Roundtable); Glynda Carr (Higher Heights Leadership Fund); Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole (NCNW); Dr. Kimberly Leonard (The Links, Incorporated); Rasheeda S. Liberty (Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated); Valerie Hollingsworth Baker (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated).

About OWN Your Vote

The OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network OWN YOUR VOTE initiative is a bipartisan registration and get-out-the-vote campaign, partnering with national and local grassroots and voting rights organizations to provide tools and resources that will empower Black women to vote. Black women powerfully influence election outcomes and OWN YOUR VOTE will support this group of voters to show up to the polls and help friends, family, and their community to do the same. 

OWN Your Vote is designed to help Black women make a voting plan for this critical 2020 election cycle, by recognizing obstacles to voting including challenges around COVID-19, mail-in ballots, voter suppression, transportation, and changing protocols and poll locations; connecting the everyday issues critical to Black women to the issues appearing on the ballot;  empowering this key voting block to own their voting story, and make a plan to ensure success at the polls; encouraging local community activism and leveraging personal networks; and collaborating with the voting rights partnership community to support mail-in voting, voter registration, volunteerism, transportation, and safety procedures. 

About Kapor Center

Kapor Center aims to enhance diversity and inclusion in the technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem through increasing access to tech and STEM education programs, conducting research on access and opportunity in computing, investing in community organizations and gap-closing social ventures, and increasing access to capital among diverse entrepreneurs. As part of the Kapor Center family of organizations’ 100 Days of Action for Racial Justice Campaign, the Kapor Center supports the mobilization of Black and Brown communities in local, state, and national elections in the 2020 election cycle.  Learn more about Kapor Center at: https://www.kaporcenter.org/