Experience Speaking: A Video Record of Life-Long Voting
Older generation speaks about their own political history
Expanding a project that started during President Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign, a group of women and their friends taped themselves offering their personal histories with politics with the aim to share the stories with a younger generation. Experience Speaking, the official name of the project, interviewed more than 45 people over a 16-month period and uploaded the videos to YouTube. The project aims to expand on the original "Silver Hair for Obama" focus to gain broader appeal. "I wanted to peel back the political layers of these older dedicated voters getting the who, what, why behind their choices," said Cherie Lejeune, who served as the director for the 2012 project. "Young voters watching the videos especially High School …
