Miami’s 2023 Truman Scholar writes ‘A Love letter to the Women Running for Local Office' for Ms. Magazine
Cameron Tiefenthaler — about to graduate and make her way into law and public service — reflects on her mother running for local office and the importance of voting
Miami’s 2023 Truman Scholar writes ‘A Love letter to the Women Running for Local Office' for Ms. Magazine
Cameron Tiefenthaler, senior Political Science and Business Analytics double major and a 2023 Truman Scholar, penned this essay published in Ms. Magazine Nov. 4, just ahead of the November 2023 general election.
Her reflections on the women on the ballot in our local elections — as well as her mother’s own run for political office in 2010 when she was 8 — are significant as we head into the Ohio primary next week, and the 2024 general election in November.
Although Tiefenthaler’s mother did not win her election, “her campaign taught me what it means to care about your community and helped make me the woman I am today — about to graduate from college and make my way into law and public service,” Tiefenthaler said.
“As young women, it is our duty to be politically active and vote in every election,” she said. As a fellow with IGNITE, a young women’s political empowerment organization that trains and supports young women as they engage in politics, part of her work has included registering voters in Ohio.
She is “looking forward to continuing to get young people involved ahead of the 2024 election. Ultimately, I’d like to run for political office myself,” Tiefenthaler said.
Read “A Love Letter to the Women Running for Local Office” in Ms. Magazine (Nov. 4, 2023)
