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Election board programs for Asian-Indian voters
2016-11-02
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Shobhana Johri Verma is the Chicago Election Board's first-ever liaison with the city's Asian-Indian voters and community organizations.
Her work with the election board involves coordinating language-assistance in the polling places for Asian-Indian voters, as well as community outreach to Asian-Indian community groups. Johri Verma's work involves recruiting bilingual judges of election who are fluent in English/Hindi, English/Gujarati and English/Urdu.
Johri Verma's experience includes defending and promoting human rights, including advocacy for rape victims, legal research to combat human trafficking, and film and print-media work in Chicago, Los Angeles and India on a variety of vital gender issues. Johri Verma is part of an Election Board Community Services team that provides language assistance to Chicago's Latinx, Chinese and Polish communities.
Johri Verma may be reached at 312-269-7990 or hindivote@chicagoelections.net .
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