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March 9, 2021
Nearly 100 Connecticut residents from 28 communities received a certificate for completing Representation Matters, an intensive, free, and groundbreaking two-day training session aimed at providing the essential skills needed for more people of color to run for local public office.
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The program was presented by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) in conjunction with the Campaign School at Yale University.
In addition, another 85 Connecticut residents from 36 communities completed the first or second day of the training.
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See attachment for the residents who graduated from the program, receiving a certificate of achievement for completing the entire two-day, 11 hour training; as well as those residents who attended one of the days of the training.
Opinion: In government, representation matters, and we need to see more of it By Aidee Nieves
City Council President Aidee Nieves
Despite their political differences, if you were to look at the list of governors for the state of Connecticut going back to Jonathan Trumbull in 1769, there would be one unifying quality that all of them shared they were all white. And with the exception of Ella Grasso and Jodi Rell, they were all male. This tells only a very narrow story of who lived and lives in Connecticut.
When the first census was held in 1790, non-white individuals (comprised of both free and enslaved persons) made up 8 percent of Connecticut’s population. By 2019, nearly 35 percent of the state’s population was non-white. For a country that was founded on the ideal of a government of the people, for the people and by the people, communities of color and native people have been largely shut out of positions of power.