We the People, Sing Our Song

The We the People, Sing Our Song campaign encourages greater civic engagement within San Diego’s racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations as active participants in our nation’s democracy. The interactive comics campaign follows multiple subjects in the San Diego region sharing their honest, candid thoughts in a multimedia “town square” captured in podcast-style audio recordings linked with analog and digital drawings illustrating key moments in the subjects’ anecdotal stories. The campaign promotes election participation in the lowest quartile California Healthy Places Index communities as a necessity to sustaining a healthy and resilient democracy on both the national and local levels by chronicling the stories of first-time voters and election workers. Democracy is not a spectator sport; people must get involved. We all have “skin in the game,” as they say. The stakes could not be higher in our post-pandemic environment and the nation’s divided political landscape.