The Email That Changed It All

Victor Shi
5 min readJul 1, 2019

Imagine yourself as a youth in Illinois — a state composed of over twelve million residents. As each day passes, your family struggles to make ends meet: your mom has to work two jobs, your father has to work four jobs, you can barely afford a two-dollar sandwich from the local 7–11 store. Just as you feel the urge to enact change in Illinois, you recognize that your voice appears insignificant compared to the other 12 million Illinois…

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Victor Shi

Youngest delegate for Joe Biden in IL; Co-Host of Intergenerational Politics podcast; UCLA Freshman