Author Archives: Yohan Ruparatne

Building Healthy Communities by Changing the Electorate

A key part of California Calls’ strategy is to expand, strengthen and collaborate with a broader ecosystem of local and state organizations working to change the face of the electorate and build the power needed to advance social and economic justice. California Calls, PICO California and USC PERE have joined forces to expand integrated voter…

Pushing Forward: Forging Statewide Collaborations

To build sufficient power advance social and economic justice, we need a coordinated movement. A key part of our strategy is to collaborate with the ecosystem of local and state organizations working to expand the electorate. Over the last 2 years California Calls has launched three power building projects in California: CALIFORNIA MILLION VOTERS PROJECT…

Pushing Back: Using Voter Power to Resist the Trump Agenda

The large-scale, sophisticated voter engagement systems we have built over the last 8 years reached a new level of impact in California in the November 2016 election—mobilizing over 282,000 young voters, immigrants, Latinos and African-Americans, and new and infrequent voters in low-income communities. Our total voter base has now grown to over 715,000 people who…