Ben Dickison

Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH

Program Year(s): 2024, 2025

Major(s): Social Work

Which issue(s) in NETWORK's An Economy for All policy agenda are you most passion about?: Food and healthcare for all

Why are you serving with Y.A.L.L.?: Esther 14:4 reads "Perhaps you were born for such a time as this." There is no better use of my time and talent than to advocate for a more just change with such a determined organization.

Work Area(s):

Advocacy from Campus to Capitol Hill
- Organized campus voter registration events and nonpartisan voter education in Fall 2024.
- October 2024–Led a lobby visit on Capitol Hill with Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) staff on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.
- May 2025–Organized a vigil at Bellarmine Chapel to pray for all impacted by detention and deportation.
- June 2025 –Letter drop-off to Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) on budget reconciliation in regards to SNAP.
Public Speaking
- White Supremacy and American Christianity: Moving Towards Beloved Community (April 6, 2024)
Media Coverage