Summary
I am Media Director for the US onAir Network of 5o state governance and election Hubs. Prior to my current position, I interned with Democracy onAir as part of a Migration Policy and Advocacy Fellowship. I work on developing and implementing US onAir’s social media strategy including YouTube, Twitter, and other accounts. I am also lead designer for our ‘Learn About videos’ under development (see videos below) and news of the week videos.
Working with US onAir combines my interest in politics and print and electronic media. I want to use my time at Democracy onAir to help spread awareness for issues that more often go unnoticed because people don’t know that these things are even happening.
I am an undergraduate student at George Mason University majoring in Government and International Politics and also part of George Mason University’s Honors College.
OnAir Post: Joe Kubicki
News
May 18, 2022
Started working with US onAir’s team of Directors as Media Director.
May 9, 2022
Completed my spring semester with the Migration Policy and Advocacy Fellowship program and made the Dean’s list.
Videos
Speak-up Videos
Transcript from Why Democracy matters to me? No video
Democracy matters to me because democracy is an answer to a question; how is power distributed throughout society? And if that answer happens to be a democracy, well then this society you live in has distributed power in a manner so as to try and provide for those who do not have enough for themselves.
Because of this, a belief in a functioning democracy is foundational to the other beliefs I hold. When my paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents respectively came to America they had nothing except contacts of family friends. My parents were both able to pursue college degrees.
My dad got a master’s degree and my mom got a doctorate. Coming to a country that is a democracy allowed both sides of my family to prosper in a multitude of ways. While the spread of democracy is not directly linked to the spread of freedom it is something that often comes with it because the reasoning for starting a democracy is very heavily associated with that of maintaining the most freedom possible for every individual in the society.
How would I improve U.S. Democracy
February 2, 2022 (01:13)
Transcript:
How would I improve our democracy? Well, I would start with changing the way political campaigns are funded. At the moment with the Citizens United court decision, has allowed millions of dollars of dark money to be funneled towards campaigns.
What is dark money? It is money that is donated through Super PACs that have no restrictions on how much you can donate and allows it to be done anonymously. If we want to have fair campaigns and elections we either need to publicly fund campaigns so we know how much money is spent or allow the unlimited donations to continue but not anonymously.
Overall though, the sooner the problem is fixed, the better because democracy is meant to make all of our inputs equal, but the way some are able to affect the political system shows just how unequal we really are when it comes to who is in charge.
Campaign Financing –
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Learn About Videos
Learn About the Electoral Reform Act
June 20, 2022
Learn About the January 6 Committee
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0:40 / 1:24 Learn About – January 6 Committee 3rd Hearing
June 24, 2022
