{"id":5068,"date":"2014-11-07T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:21:52","slug":"advancing-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/advancing-civic-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Civic Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/illianMcLaughlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5069 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/illianMcLaughlin.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alulmna Jillian McLaughlin\" width=\"255\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Like many Kalamazoo College alumni, Jillian McLaughlin \u201910 is as creative as she is passionate (in her case, about important public policy issues). This fall the public policy graduate student (she attends the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) collaborated with photographer Peter Rausse to create the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/46513-jillian-mclaughlin-unsexy-policy-project-will-make-you-very-very-excited-about-civic-democracy\"><strong>Unsexy Policy Project<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s goal is to get people, especially people aged 18 to 29, to think about, and act on, policy issues that, stuffy as they may seem, affect millions of people. McLaughlin\u2019s tactic: bring back the &#8220;unsexy!&#8221; or, put another way, articulate a matter\u2019s <em>gravitas<\/em> and hitch it to a metaphor generally recognized as &#8220;sexy.&#8221; In application, this meant combining cheese- or beef-cake photos of some dozen current or former students of the Kennedy School with short, lay-language summaries of a particular issue, such as voter ID laws, tax reform, telecommunication competition, among others. The project took three days to complete and rolled out before the November mid-term elections. McLaughlin and Rausse made a calendar out of the photos and will donate proceeds from sales to an organization selected by the project\u2019s Facebook fans.<\/p>\n<p>Before she started her graduate program, McLaughlin worked as a researcher for the National Consumer Law Center, an advocacy organization dedicated to improving the economic security of low-income individuals and families. At K she majored in political science and was an outstanding cross-country runner. We love her title at the Unsexy Policy Project: &#8220;Co-Founder and Chief Mischief Maker.&#8221; Very K-like.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5070 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo.jpg\" alt=\"Try and Keep Up - The federal minimum wage should rise with inflation\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo-476x300.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5071 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne.jpg\" alt=\"Man lying on desk with four folders\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne-385x300.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many Kalamazoo College alumni, Jillian McLaughlin \u201910 is as creative as she is passionate (in her case, about important public policy issues). 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This fall the public policy graduate student (she attends the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) collaborated with photographer Peter Rausse to create the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/46513-jillian-mclaughlin-unsexy-policy-project-will-make-you-very-very-excited-about-civic-democracy\"><strong>Unsexy Policy Project<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s goal is to get people, especially people aged 18 to 29, to think about, and act on, policy issues that, stuffy as they may seem, affect millions of people. McLaughlin\u2019s tactic: bring back the &#8220;unsexy!&#8221; or, put another way, articulate a matter\u2019s <em>gravitas<\/em> and hitch it to a metaphor generally recognized as &#8220;sexy.&#8221; In application, this meant combining cheese- or beef-cake photos of some dozen current or former students of the Kennedy School with short, lay-language summaries of a particular issue, such as voter ID laws, tax reform, telecommunication competition, among others. The project took three days to complete and rolled out before the November mid-term elections. McLaughlin and Rausse made a calendar out of the photos and will donate proceeds from sales to an organization selected by the project\u2019s Facebook fans.<\/p>\n<p>Before she started her graduate program, McLaughlin worked as a researcher for the National Consumer Law Center, an advocacy organization dedicated to improving the economic security of low-income individuals and families. At K she majored in political science and was an outstanding cross-country runner. We love her title at the Unsexy Policy Project: &#8220;Co-Founder and Chief Mischief Maker.&#8221; Very K-like.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5070 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyTwo.jpg\" alt=\"Try and Keep Up - The federal minimum wage should rise with inflation\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5071 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/nsexyOne.jpg\" alt=\"Man lying on desk with four folders\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9434,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions\/9434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}