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A Call to Serve – Social Impact Report                                                                                                                                                                                    2020


            A Call to Serve:




            Counsel Sasha Hodge-Wren Captains

            Voting Rights Hotline during Pandemic







               n this issue of the Social Impact   Every  election  is  important,   pandemic that had, by Election Day,              targeting in particular the inequities   providing  assistance  to  callers  at   Virginia, became affiliated with the
               Report,  we  have  focused  on   and  vigilance  over  the  seemingly   killed well over 200,000 people in             confronting African Americans and   all stages of voting and on matters   hotline  and  its  mission  during  the

           I the  issue  of  social  justice  as   incontrovertible right to safely vote   the  United  States  alone  produced       other  racial  and  ethnic  minorities.   related  to  registration,  absentee   2016  presidential  election,  when
            viewed through the prism of several   remains critical every single year—  logistical   complications   and               Through  its  Election  Protection   and early voting, casting a vote at   she  served  as  a  call  volunteer.  In
            fronts where justice has sometimes   yet, somehow, these stakes seemed   concerns  for  a  national  election             coalition  of  more  than  100  local,   the polls, and overcoming obstacles   2020,  she  served  as  a  volunteer
            proved, if not elusive, then at least   even higher in 2020. With protest in   never before faced on such a scale.        state  and  national  partners,  the   to their participation.        Captain  and  eventually  a  Lead,
            contested. One front discussed was   the air like wildfire—which was also                                                 organization  works  year-round  to                                   taking  on  more  responsibility  in

            the  criminal  justice  system  itself.   in the air—a fractious citizenry held   Enter  the  Lawyers’  Committee         ensure that all voters have an equal   Miles  &  Stockbridge  Counsel   an even more challenging election
            Then  we  examined  social  justice   very  divergent  views  on  not  only   for  Civil  Rights  Under  Law,  a          opportunity to vote—and have that   Sasha Hodge-Wren, resident in the   cycle. “With all that has been going
            in  terms  of  economic  opportunity.   the country’s future, but the reality   nonpartisan, nonprofit organization       vote count—in large part through its   firm’s  Washington,  D.C.  office  and   on  this  year  particularly—I  wanted
            Here,  we  consider  a  third  battle-  of its present and past. On top of   whose  mission  is  to  secure  equal        management and administration of   representing  clients  throughout   to help where I could,” Hodge-Wren
            front: the voting booth.           that social tinderbox, a global virus   justice for all through the rule of law,       866-OUR-VOTE,  a  national  hotline   the nation’s capital, Maryland and   relates,  “And,  with  a  six-month-






























                               Sasha E. Hodge-Wren, Counsel





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