Our own Bernita Smith has been selected as a Last Mile Grantee to help increase regional, gender, and ethnic diversity at YearlyKos.
This is Georgia's chance to be a part of something bigger. Something United. An idea borne out out of the need to bring more voices to the table. Your donation of $10, $25 or $50 can help her make it all the way. And you know it's worth it just to see what the nerdy boys will make of all that.
Every day BfD's front page posters write new posts to stir conversations, promote thoughful debate, decipher the rhetoric, and to challenge us on why we are Georgia Democrats. Our voices are not heard on the National scene that is dominiated by East and West Coast bloggers. As a community, we can remedy this. By sending Bernita to YearlyKos, we kill three birds with one stone, so to speak. Our one digital diva increases gender, regional and ethnic diversity at the conference, all in one potent package! Plus, you'll get some great live blogging from the event.
Fellow bloggers help us spread the word this week and watch the suitcase in the upper left of the main page as we reach $100 milestones.
Having attended a number of political, progressive and/or tech confabs in recent years, I can tell you I'm damn tired of seeing Oliver Willis as the lone African-American representative at the bloggers table and Anna Marie Cox as the token female. Not to take anything away from either blogger, but there are other voices out there that deserve to be heard, and Bernita's would be at the top of my list. The Last Mile Project started because a group of bloggers also knew that there were more voices that needed to be heard. Let's do our part by sending another voice from the South, and showing that Georgia supports the efforts of its bloggers.
The Last Mile Project has reached out across the blogosphere to help secure funding to get 16 new voices to YearlyKos. They have secured all convention registration fees, but it's up to us to raise the funds for travel and hotel expenses for five days in Chicago. With your help, I know we can meet the goal.
More background on The Last Mile Project here.
