As the League's digital communications senior manager, Lilly leads the digital communications team, strengthening LWV's relationship with its audience via email, social media, web, and video content. She spearheads efforts to enhance the user experience on LWV.org through content and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as well as accessibility and functionality upgrades.
Past projects include developing LWV's first-ever web-embedded election impact report and implementing LWV's award-winning Women's Inequality Day campaign. In 2022, her work spearheading a full website overhaul won both a W3 Gold award and a Ragan Communications Award.
A complicated legal system, the fraught history of international adoption, and the current Administration’s rhetoric around citizenship and immigration have caused concern for many adoptees. Are they at risk of being deported or losing citizenship?
Because who doesn't love a seasonal quiz?
There are some years we’re certain will go down in the history books — 2025 was one of them.
It was a year of challenges to both our democracy and our spirit. It was also a year when everyday voters showed up by the millions to fight for a country by and for the people.
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, we’ve seen increased attacks on our democratic systems and a failure by Congress to intervene. This came to a head in early April, when the president defied a Supreme Court order to return the wrongfully deported Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
You've cast your vote and possibly received the results — so what do you do now to defend democracy? Our advocacy, litigation, and voting rights teams have some tips.
As we face a critical moment in our democracy, the League and partners will continue to unite and rise in many forms — including the long tradition of peaceful protest.
Claudia Ortega Hogue has been appointed to the national board of directors of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS), bringing her deep expertise and commitment to civic engagement to the organization’s leadership. A lifelong advocate for community empowerment and a seasoned nonprofit leader, Ortega Hogue brings over 25 years of experience across the nonprofit, government, higher education, engineering, and construction sectors.
Our history is replete with people with disabilities who paved the way for a stronger, more representative democracy — like Judy Heumann, Sojourner Truth, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Claudia Gordan, Harriet Tubman, Joyce Ardell Jackson, and Vilissa Thompson, to name a few.
Yet we also know that anti-voter laws and regulations disproportionately impact people with disabilities, and the fight to make the vote more accessible is ongoing.
In this blog, we’ll highlight some of our favorite voting rights activists who were also women with disabilities. Then, we’ll examine how ability and voting rights intersect today.
During the 2024 federal election, Leagues focused on uplifting all voters, across gender, race, political party, location, income, language, and more.
As a result, they made more than 30 million voter contacts, protected nearly 10 million voters through litigation, provided over 9.19 million people with election information on VOTE411.org, and more.
Mark off all the ways you've acted to defend democracy with our Presidential Address bingo!