Nevins is co-publisher of The Fulcrum and co-founder and board chairman of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund.
The Team is excited to invite you, your teams and your colleagues to the 2024 Virtual All Star Engaged Athlete meeting on Oct 8.
This national nonpartisan event, featuring college athletes, coaches and administrators, is designed to celebrate and expand the unique impact that athletes can have on campuses and communities across America.
With an important election approaching, The Team is redoubling efforts between now and Election Day to amplify its message through civic initiatives like #AllVoteNoPlay andby teaming up with Pizza to the Polls, HeadCount, Athletes Unlimited, the Social Change Fund, More Than A Vote, the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition and ALL IN , among many others.
In 2022, The Team's All Star meeting gathered over 2,000 athletes around the country to learn from luminaries such as NBA great Stephen Curry, former Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Hosted by UCLA quarterback Chase Griffin, this year's event will again feature student athletes interviewing sports icons and influencers such as NCAA President Charlie Baker, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, WNBA all-star Natasha Cloud of the Phoenix Mercury and many more.
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The Team, which partners on programs with the Bridge Alliance (publisher of The Fulcrum), is making a difference as nearly 600,000 student athletes across the country are overlooked by most traditional civics programs, and yet these people are often some of the most powerful voices and influential leaders on their campuses. College athletics provides an opportunity to develop great teammates, inspire tomorrow’s leaders and empower athletes to shape the future. The Team is there to engage and involve student athletes from across the country to be civic leaders.
The Team is led by Joe Kennedy, a former collegiate basketball player and coach who served as a special assistant for the Office of Public Engagement at the White House. In September 2022, Kennedy became the first executive director of All Vote No Play. During the 2020 election cycle, he connected with Stanford’s associate head men’s basketball coach, Eric Reveno, and they became a major force leading a new college athletics movement to expand student-athlete voter registration and create civic resources for coaches and teams.
Kennedy is working towards a future where all student athletes and athletic departments establish civic engagement as a priority:
“More than 500,000 student athletes are largely overlooked by most traditional civics programs, and yet, these athletes are often some of the most powerful voices and influential leaders on their campuses. We are building energy around the importance of athletes, coaches, and administrators becoming more engaged citizens. We offer tools and resources to help them shape the future they want to create.”
Register here. And The Team is willing to send you free pizza if you have a watch party. Sign up for pizza by Sept 27.
