If you’ve heard one thing about 25-year-old MaxwellFrostFL, it’s probably that he could be one of the first Gen Z members of Congress.
With the Florida Democratic primary August 23, Teen Vogue interviewed Frost about Florida politics, community organizing, abortion access, and more.Teen Vogue: You’ve been organizing for all of your adult life. How does running for office differ for you?My first jobs out of high school as an organizer and then as a field director were getting candidates elected, so I have a good amount of experience in organizing people to vote and inspiring people to get involved civically.
The change for me was actually being the candidate, and going from a place where I was working to elect people and being on that side of things, or even at [MFOL] being outside of electing specific people but just turn out, to being the person. It definitely comes with its challenges, especially as a young person. If you go on our website now you might be like, “You’re not struggling, you’re getting support from people.
to the work I did at [MFOL], and this has provided new challenges, both personally and also politically.: What would you say are the unique challenges of running with progressive values in Florida’s 10th congressional district?: The first one is being in Florida, and being in the South, and being someone who has a progressive agenda.
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