Recognizing the power of the Native vote, Jason Chavez, a 24-year-old from the Tohono O’odham Nation, spent the past year working with tribal leaders to encourage voting. He successfully implemented an early voting site that resulted in a 300 percent increase in early voter turnout in his community.

Chavez is part of a growing network launched in partnership with the Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute, the White House, and the US Department of the Interior (DOI) in support of Obama’s Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative.