Democracy Champions

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) is hiring! We seek to hire numerous part‑time Democracy Champions to work 20 hours/week to build our campaign to restore voting rights of all Kentuckians with felonies in their past.

Note that only Kentuckians with felonies in their past may apply for this position. That’s because we know people directly impacted by felony disenfranchisement are the best messengers and spokespeople for this issue.

We’ll connect to some of the hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians with felonies in their past to invite them into our campaign to restore voting rights for all. We’ll practice leadership skills like telling our stories, planning events, having 1:1 conversations, tabling, petitioning, making fundraising asks and inviting people into the organization. We’ll also be registering Kentuckians with felonies in their past who won back the right to vote a few years ago.

Hours: part‑time, 20 hours / week, flexible schedule with some scheduled events

Duration
:
August 10 – November 6, 2026 (13 weeks)

Pay
: $26 / hour

Locations include, but are not limited to:
Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Covington and NKY area, Richmond/Berea, Frankfort, Shelbyville, Georgetown, Danville, Morehead, Prestonsburg / Pikeville, Hazard, Corbin / London, Hopkinsville, Madisonville.

KFTC is a grassroots organization with thousands of members and a dozen chapters across Kentucky organizing for racial, social, healing, and economic justice, a healthy environment, and an honest democracy. We believe in the power of community organizing – people working together to achieve common goals. It’s a long‑term approach that focuses on building and exercising power, especially among people affected by injustice, to improve the quality of life for all.

KFTC has built up a powerful infrastructure to foster democratic values in our state—through tactics such as targeted voter registration, educating on candidate stances, voter mobilization, training candidates, endorsing candidates, and changing laws to make more space for democracy.

We engage in this work to create an authentic, participatory Democracy, which is needed to create the life Kentuckians deserve. We want to make elected officials more responsive to Kentuckians as a whole. We also seek to create an environment in which better candidates will run and get elected.

KFTC’s grassroots leadership has adopted the following description of what we are working to be and achieve together over the coming years:

• Vivid
  
  Description:
  
  Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a collective light, leading the way to a thriving, joyful, intergenerational, multi‑cultural society where people are free from oppression and where equity, health care, and racial, economic, and social justice exist for everyone. We are a beloved community, where all people are connected and affirmed through healthy relationships, and dedicated to achieving mutual liberation.
• Audacious Goal:
  Guided by Black, Indigenous, People of Color and impacted communities, we will recruit, equip, and activate a network of 100,000 members and partners across all 120 counties to dismantle racism and all systems of oppression, to develop a robust democracy and transform the future of Kentucky.

You’ll attend a virtual 2‑hour training each week with other Kentuckians with felonies in their past to learn more skills to help you build our campaign.
These 2‑hour trainings are every Tuesday from 11am to 1pm ET and are mandatory. You’ll need to connect with them from a computer, on camera in a quiet place where you’ll be able to focus and participate.

You’ll also attend a local coordination meeting in your communities with a local organizer from time to time.

You will be responsible for finding ways to get out in your community to register voters, get petitions signed and recruit new KFTC members. That might include setting up tables and circulating with clipboards at community festivals, in parks, in front of friendly businesses, going door‑to‑door, making calls, etc.

You’ll connect with people, listen to their stories and concerns, share information about this issue,…