After the registration drive, Nupol went home to brainstorm ways to get young people more involved. As a person who was born in 2000, she said she realized the next generation of voters were all also from the 2000s. Thus, the name Vote 2000 was decided. “We’ve partnered up with DoSomething.org, and they’ve really helped me because they truly believe in empowering young people,” she says. “I now have a really strong team of fellow young people. In fact, were fully run by young people.”In late June, Nupolu delivered theelast speech on Friday, January 8, just a few days after a mob of Trump supportersstormed the U.S. Capitol buildingwheremembers of Congress had been deliberating party leader Fred Hampton in his sleep, the legacy of the Panthers is still deemed too dangerous for public consumption. But in August 2017, when the then-17-year-old president for the Youth Coalition of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, tocounter-protest the “Unite the Right” rally