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Ben Dickison

Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH


Program Year(s): 2024, 2025

Major(s): Social Work


Which issue are 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. Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.

Public Speaking:

Media Coverage:

 

Ben hosts a screening of the documentary "Bad Faith" which focuses on the anti-democratic of Christian Nationalism.
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