Erica Mah was feeling a little apprehensive. An English language development teacher in Baltimore County, she spent some previous elections at voting locations handing out information about pro-education candidates.
But she’d never gone door-knocking, and not just where she was headed –– York, Pennsylvania — but anywhere.
“I’ll be honest, I originally was not going to go,” Mah said this week, as she planned to join a group of mostly educators from Maryland canvassing for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the country’s largest swing state.
“But I feel like this election is too important,” she said. “All people in America, but especially those minority populations like women and my multilingual language families, are the two groups that I’m worried about.”
Mah, 50, and her husband were set to ride on one of two 50-capacity buses that the Maryland State Education Association, the state’s largest union of educators, was organizing for a day of door-knocking Saturday in York.