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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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