Clay Ersa-Davis

Winter 2023- Current

• During my time at high country peace and justice I helped write a mission, initiated a family spotlight newletter, led workgroups

Spring-Fall 2022

• During my time with the campaign I was in charge of managing several voting sites, reaching out to around 150 voters a day, doing opposition research, creating youth targeted content and planning fundraiser events.

Summer 2022

• I began at FOLA as a first-round canvassing volunteer, within two weeks I was asked to be operations manager
• During this short time, I coordinated and trained 25~ volunteers per week, regularly communicated with government officials, and helped shape our budget and database.
• The campaign went on to beat Duke Energy, an 81-billion-dollar company

Winter - Fall 2020

• I participated in phone banking, and canvassing for voters and did routine followups with them
• During my time stationed outside of numerous polling sites, I built bipartisan relationships with community members and fellow workers stationed at the polls

Winter 2019-Summer 2020

• At Sunrise, I co-organized and spoke at 7 separate rallies for action against climate change, regularly communicated with state officials and organized monthly meetings.
• I successfully quintupled our turnout rates in less than 3 months for protests and training
• I eventually led my team to leave the organization due to a lack of intersectionality and transparency after filing multiple complaints

Fall 2019- Winter 2019

• During my time at Y.E.S, I co-created and gave several presentations detailing local environmental issues, the complete history of racism in the United States and financial racism in the tobacco industry.
• Unfortunately, the nonprofit lost funding and all youth staff were let go.