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Hannah Sassaman

Hannah Sassaman

Hannah Sassaman (she/her) is the executive director of People’s Tech Project, an organization focused on arming movements for liberation with the tools to fight the tech that oppresses us.  She has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of community power and tech and media justice. As policy director at Movement Alliance Project (MAP), Hannah spearheaded myriad groundbreaking campaigns, including CAP Comcast, which helped thousands of Philadelphians win affordable internet for themselves and their communities, and other campaigns around bail, policing, electoral accountability, and prosecution. Hannah was a Soros Justice Fellow focused on algorithms in pretrial decision-making, and is a regular commentator and author on these issues.  She is a former board member at Allied Media Projects and the Valentine Foundation. She is a member of the board of directors of Fight for the Future and a national coordinating committee member of LeftRoots.

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The Voter ID Struggle in Pennsylvania: Losing ID Is about Losing More than the Right to Vote

For six years, we’ve believed that the right to speak means little without the right to be heard—and hundreds of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania residents have agreed with us.  We’re poor and working people producing media that tells the untold stories of people in Pennsylvania—and developing those people into leaders united to change our city and state. We’re a tight crew, so when folks are having trouble, we come together to help each other out. One young man, Marco (not his real name), is a producer at Radio Unidad, Philadelphia’s only Spanish-language community news show. Andres and Paulita (not their real names) are leaders in another immigrant rights campaign that’s been meeting since January. Even though they work hard, support families, and in many cases own homes and pay taxes--the state has unceremoniously cancelled their drivers’ licenses, saying that the Tax ID numbers they used to get their licenses aren’t proof enough of their right to live in the US.