UK Students Wrap up a Great 1st Year of KFTC Organizing

It feels like we've had an active University of Kentucky KFTC group forever at this point, but in fact, they've just wrapped up their first academic year together.

Highlights for the first year include:
- Massive student voter registration drives resulting in over 700 registrations
- Several dozen community tabling events
- Two large Restoration of Voting Rights for Former Felons events to raise awareness
- Great leadership development
- Great membership recruitment to help KFTC hit its goal of reaching 5,000 members
- Well-planned and fun Concert For The Commonwealth last Fall
- Great ally work
- Great work in the Legislative Session to bring students to Frankfort and otherwise
- Strong supporting role on the Robinson Forest campaign
- Great Voter Empowerment work around the UK Student Government Elections, launching a website with survey results from 40 candidates and 4,600 web visits to see them.

Kudos to Joe Gallenstein, Danny Cotton, John Ghaelian, Katie Goldey, Alise Marshall, Matt Harmin, Chuck Clenney, Watson Harding, Charlie Denison, Kim Hoffmeister, Hunter Palmer, Patrick Nally, Joan Braun, Kyle Randall, Rob Reyes, Sarah Kyser, Jessica Bookout, Phillip Gravatte, Rachel Lewis, and sooo many others who made UK KFTC's first year a success. 

The UK crew are going to gather one last time in the semester Tuesday at 8pm in Student Center room 106 to go out to dinner and celebrate the year.  Feel free to join them.

On April 21st at noon, UK KFTC is also organizing a Voter Empowerment event, encouraging UK students registered on campus but from elsewhere to vote early if they'll be out of the city on Election Day (after finals).  Come by and walk with us to the County Clerk's office downtown to cast your ballot early.