For my activism project, I wanted to use Show Your Power, a mobile application that I have been working on for months now. Show Your Power (SYP) has a webpage, Showyourpower.org, and corresponding Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even its own YouTube channel. Show Your Power is a social media platform that aims to strengthen American Democracy by promoting young citizens’ voter engagement and participation in the political process. It seeks to accomplish these goals by informing citizens of the enormous power they possess in their right to vote and to speak directly to their elected officials as individuals and groups, while inspiring them to stand up for the political and social issues that they care about most. The platform is particularly focused on youth and urban communities, given the vital need to expand the voter engagement and political participation of these communities. Our motto is “Show your power. If you don’t, someone will.”

We encourage and support empowered citizens who have passions about specific policies (Like Divest DU and its petition) and are looking for more awareness and support for their causes. SYP will be promote progressive action on political/social causes, uniting individuals across different races, communities, and even political parties on the issues that a majority of citizens support. Using these social media platforms we also encouraged the use of the hashtag #ShowYourPower, while supporting a cause or political issues that the individual is passionate about. This enables more awareness for SYP, the political/social issue at hand, and will give people the means to hold their politicians accountable to the voice of the empowered and united.

(Website design, users can sign up using their email to join the platform and stay in tune to the issues that they customized to their passions)

(Divest DU- one of the campaigns SYP supports, uniting students across not just DU's campus but around other similar campaigns occurring on other campuses)

(Easy maneuverability between social media platforms, encouraging citizens to take action by posting photos of their own activism/ political passions by using the hashtag #ShowYourPower)