Co-Director Update- Russell Allen
Overview 8-30 through 9-10
Coalition Building
Overview:
This period was spent cleaning up and assessing what our coalition truly is. List work was
completed and follow up discussions with Fight For South’s Beth Howard, Lexington Area
Pastor’s leader Clark Williams and Amnesty International's Anthony Goodwin were held. A
tentative meeting is scheduled with Clark Williams once our Frank Bumgartner report is
complete. Follow up with Beth and Tony focused around event boosting and support for our
virtual and/or in-person events.
List work is important to any campaign and | spent a good chunk of time this period cleaning up
our supporter list. Our original list in VoterVoice had 3,395 entries. After downloading the list |
removed the entries that listed organization level supporter (without contact) and email marked
as “Bad”. | uploaded the remaining 2,146 entries into Mailchimp and an additional 144 were
removed as duplicates leaving a total of 2,002 e-mails. | have added an additional 27 contacts
(awaiting new emails from two folks then they will be added). The “Bad” contacts and
organizational contact will stay on the master list but be delineated. Over the next two weeks |
will go through these contacts to see if we can recover some through some organizing back
door work.
Attached to this email will be all relevant spreadsheets. All of my contacts are in VoterVoice as
well and | will add Tialisha’s contacts once she has finished gaining permissions from them as
discussed in our meeting. Finally, we were able to bring in 5 new volunteers via social media as
well. We will be putting out a call to additional volunteers via e-mail this week. We will send the
copy of the e-mail going out prior to it being sent. The goal is to use these volunteers to help us
build structure in Louisville, Lexington, Eastern, Western and Northern Kentucky. This chapter
model is used by other DP groups and is successful.
Numbers:
Stakeholders: No change (0)
Partners:No change (10)
Organization level:No change (10)
Individual supporters: 29 (-3)
Volunteers: 5 (+5)
¢ Email list: 2,027 (-1,368)
Advocacy/Communications
Overview:
KCADP Co-directors are planning two KCADP events over the next quarter. The delta variant
will make it likely that these events will be virtual. Co-directors are preparing for these events
and the dates will be communicated to the chair and board as soon as they are confirmed.
KCADP Co-directors are using social media to revitalize our volunteer base and show solidarity
to Tennessee and Missouri organizers who have active death campaigns. We are noticing that a
targeted approach is yielding elevated engagement on posts but we will be ramping up moving
forward.
Numbers:
e Social Media post growth:
- Facebook (2 posts: 713 total reach, 7 likes, 8 shares, 1 photo view 6 link clicks, 5
3-second video views)
- Twitter: (4 tweets 699 impressions, 20 engaged, 2 retweets, 5 likes)
- Instagram: N/A
e Public actions/events: 0
e Media hits: 0
Education/Outreach
Overview:
Co-directors have been working on a data set for about a month on victim data in Kentucky. This
data set will be used for a report on Kentucky and the Death Penalty completed by Professor
Frank Bumgartner. We have discussed with Frank providing a copy of the report but haven’t
received a reply. | will share the top lines here so you can get a feel for its contents.
This report is integral to our organizing efforts moving forward. It has created somewhat of a
holding pattern but we should complete the data set in the next week. Report is still on track to
be completed by Mid-to late September.
TOP LINE FRANK REPORT POINTS
Declining use over time (especially since 1976)
High rates of reversal
Reversals come after years on death row
Geriatric death row
No connection to homicide rates
Racial disparities (victims and individuals sentenced)
Numbers:
In person/virtual trainings: 0
1-on-1’s: 5 (35)
Congregations: 0 (1)
Counties visited: 0 (6)
Contact with legislature: 0 (1)
