Vote for Bianca at CDM

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$10 online, $20 at the door

Departing from Boston, Waltham, and Worcester on Friday afternoon. Returning from Smith Sunday afternoon

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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CDM Convention at Smith College

Bianca's Bio

    My name is Bianca Kreiling. I am currently a Junior Studying Sociology and Economics at Suffolk University in Downtown Boston. I am an active member of Suffolk University Democrats. I am also involved in making a difference on my campus through Student government. And finally I work as a student organizer for the Student immigrant Movement, trying to win legislation that gives undocumented youth access to higher education.

    I grew up in rural Northern California where liberal values are a way of life, I never questioned my political affiliation however politics was not important to my family, so I was not involved. I first became interested in politics my Senior year of high school, when my history teacher showed us a video of Barack Obama's 2004 DNC speech and said "This man is brilliant and there are stirrings that he may run for President, However this country, right now will not elect a black man as president." This first thing that popped into my mind was "Not if I have anything to do with it" I believed what Obama said that day,  "as we stand on the crossroads of history we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us." 

    Upon arriving at college the next year I became involved with politics. I worked with Student for Barack Obama where I was blessed to be surrounded by some of the best organizers; my fellow students worked tirelessly and I absorbed their work ethic assuming that was what politics was. I made phone calls, I knocked doors, I traveled out of state, everything I could possibly do. I then continued working to organize the students in my home state of Califonia throughout the Primaries to do the work I had become so familiar with. I spent a lot of time in Nevada leading up to January's caucus and when the Obama for America team came back to Nevada for the general with much of the same staff as before I recieved a phone call asking me to take a position in Nevada. I agreed and left College to commit myself full time to the election. During the election I developed my work ethic and organizing skills even further. I survived on 3-5 hours of sleep a night and little to no free time for the duration of the campaign in Nevada. Living and working in an area that was predominantly Conservative and Independent taught me how to interact with those with completely different mindsets from mine. In the end my district which had not turned Blue since 1954 turned blue by a margin of 25,000 votes, Nevada is a small state, Bush won the ENTIRE state by a margin of only 21,000 votes in 2004. I was glad to see that my tireless hard work had paid off, and I came to know that if I worked hard enough anything was possible

    After the campaign I moved to Massachusetts because it seemed to be the beacon of college life and college students. I came and was shocked to find a weak College Democrats. I had an initial vision for what College Democrats in Massachusetts could be and quite frankly should be; the leader in student organizing. I had a plan for getting involved and making that vision a reality, however I fell into a common trap, a catch 22, if you will, I was working so much to stay in college, I could barely keep up with college, as a result I did not get to follow up on my vision right away. I discovered instead what it was like to be a truly starving student, I lived the life that college democrats stand up for, those who have the passion, the drive, but sadly not the resources to have a college education easily available.

    At the turn of 2010 I was called to join the ranks of the Coakley campaign and I answered the call. I worked constantly, turning back to the work ethic I have associated with politics and with campaigns since the beginning. Lawrence, where I was organizing went overwhelmingly blue, with 65.22% of the vote, Coakley won. However reports that this was not the case throughout the rest of the state, hit us all. I was devastated and then I was angry because I knew that the youth did not organize themselves as well as we could have. I took this as a lesson, I would not allow money to stand in my way of making my vision for CDM a reality. Even if I never slept, even if I couldn't eat, I would make the time to make a change. I quit one of my three jobs, freeing up an extra 50 hours a week in order to stand up and fight for exactly what I believe in.