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FALL RIVER The tables were turned on Mayor Paul Coogan s media coordinator Elaina Pevide recently: She authored an article on politics, and for a major national magazine, no less.
Pevide s article, All Politics is Local: Changemaking Happens Closer to Home Than You Realize, appeared last month in Ms., a magazine founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes.
So how did this happen? It all started at Brandeis University, where Pevide became involved with the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation ENACT, a national program engaging undergraduates in state-level legislative change by learning to work with legislators, staffers, and community organizations.
Many fail to realize that creating change can be easier and faster when you look a little closer to home.
Boston Women’s March, 2017. (Carly Hagins / Flickr)
Like most Americans, my upbringing did not prepare me for advocacy work. As a child in Fall River, Massachusetts a working class, post-Industrial mill city the term “lobbying” had no use in my vocabulary and simply sounded lofty and inaccessible. I pictured members of Congress, miles away from Massachusetts, making decisions on behalf of my community. There were no paths clear to me as to how I could be a part of the changemaking.