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Hope and Change: What I learned campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Making My Way
I drove off at 7:01 a.m., just as the parking officer was about to ticket my car. I took Lucy, my Himalayan cat of fourteen years, and hit the road, leaving Washington, DC, in my rearview mirror. By luck and/or design, my nine-to-five job (like so many other people in 2008) had ended the Friday before and I was off to volunteer with the Obama campaign in Indiana, the state in which I grew up. This was the first time since Lyndon Johnson was in office that Indiana might “go blue” in a presidential election and I wanted to be a part of this tectonic shift in a place to which I am undeniably connected.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.