Adia Kolb is an undergraduate student at West Virginia University and an intern with Kendra Fershee's campaign in West Virginia's 1st Congressional District. Kolb canvassed for Fershee at the intersection of University and Patteson Avenues on October 25, during the WVU vs Baylor football game.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
As part of a partnership with Morgan State University’s Institute for Social Justice, students in the West Virginia University Reed College of Media have spent the semester working on stories about first time candidates, first time voters and first time political activists in the state ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Adia Kolb is an undergraduate student at West Virginia University and an intern with Kendra Fershee’s campaign in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. Kolb canvassed for Fershee at the intersection of University and Patteson Avenues on October 25, during the WVU vs Baylor football game.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Adia Kolb is an 18-year-old undergraduate student at West Virginia University and an intern with Kendra Fershee’s campaign.
Kolb helped to organize a recent candidate event with Fershee, held at 123 Pleasant St in Morgantown, West Virginia, on October 23.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Adia Kolb is an 18-year-old undergraduate student at West Virginia University and an intern with Kendra Fershee’s campaign.
Kolb helped to organize a recent candidate event with Fershee, held at 123 Pleasant St in Morgantown, West Virginia, on October 23.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Amy Nichole Grady is a teacher at Leon Elementary school in Mason County, West Virginia. Inspired by the statewide teacher’s strike earlier this year, she’s running as an independent in District 4, hoping to secure a seat in the West Virginia state Senate.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Amy Nichole Grady is a teacher at Leon Elementary school in Mason County, West Virginia. Inspired by the statewide teacher’s strike earlier this year, she’s running as an independent in District 4, hoping to secure a seat in the West Virginia state Senate.
Grady is married and a mother of two, both in attendance at Leon Elementary. A new after-school activity for the Grady family has been knocking on doors every evening and visiting with voters.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
my Nichole Grady is a teacher at Leon Elementary school in Mason County, West Virginia. Inspired by the statewide teacher’s strike earilier this year, she’s running as an independent in District 4, hoping to secure a seat in the West Virginia state Senate.
Grady is married and a mother of two, both in attendance at Leon Elementary. A new after-school activity for the Grady family has been knocking on doors every evening and visiting with voters.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Kendra Fershee is a first-time candidate for U.S. Congress in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. Fershee is also a law professor at West Virginia University and is married and has two children.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Kendra Fershee is a first-time candidate for U.S. Congress in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. Fershee is also a law professor at West Virginia University and is married and has two children.
Fershee participated in a Meet the Candidate forum in Taylor County at the Grafton VFW on Tuesday, October 16th.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Nicholas Chaffins, a senior at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West Virginia, joined some 200 students in a walkout in solidarity with the victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting earlier this year.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Nicholas Chaffins, a senior at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West Virginia, joined some 200 students in a walkout in solidarity with the victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting earlier this year. He recounts the experience outside the front entrance to MHS.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Talley Sergent is first-time candidate running for Congress in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. Sergent has been open throughout her campaign about her personal family connections to the opioid crisis in West Virginia and says increasing access to affordable healthcare is one of her main goals.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Talley Sergent is a first-time candidate running for Congress in West Virginia’s2nd Congressional District. Sergent is a familiar face at The Smokehouse, a restaurant on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia, not far from her campaign office, where she often goes to chat with familiar faces and to discuss current issues with locals.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
Talley Sergent is a first-time candidate running for Congress in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. Sergent is a familiar face at The Smokehouse, a restaurant on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia, not far from her campaign office, where she often goes to chat with familiar faces and to discuss current issues with locals.
Photo credit: Justin Hayhurst / 100 Days in Appalachia
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