Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort

The Ask Every Student initiative’s Codesigner Campus Cohort program is a diverse group of students, faculty, and campus staff leaders from across the country who collaboratively design innovative tools and resources for campuses to use to implement strategies that ask every student at their institution to participate in the democratic process in a nonpartisan way and ultimately achieve full student voter registration of eligible students. Through a human-centered design process, each Codesigner adapts an existing resource from the Ask Every Student Toolkit or develops a new resource aligned with the Ask Every Student Framework.

Since 2020, 42 total campuses have participated in the Codesigner Cohort program, across three cohorts.

 
A map depicting the geographic distribution of the current and past Codesigner Cohort, across 25 states and D.C.

Meet the 2025 Codesigner Cohort!

The 2025 Codesigner Cohort is a selective group of five faculty and campus staff leaders representing a diverse set of institution types and regions, including 4 community colleges and 2 minority serving institutions.

 
 

Adam Smith

Bowling Green State University

Alejandra Maya

Mesa Community College

Dr. Diane McMahon

Allegany College of Maryland

Erich Heppner

Central Lakes College

Dr. Lisa-Ann O'Connor

CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

 

Check out the new resources created by the 2025 Codesigner Cohort:

Advancing Career Readiness through Nonpartisan Voter Engagement and Career Services Collaboration
Administrative Buy-In for Civic Engagement: Why College Leaders Should Champion Civic Engagement on Campus
Civic Engagement Ambassadors: Hiring & Programming Timeline
Engaging Faculty Champions to include Nonpartisan Student Voter Education in Their Courses
Scaling Faculty Engagement: Supporting Civic Learning through Flexible Classroom Integration