One of the most important rights as an American citizen is the ability to elect our government officials and to engage in political and civic groups. The first step is to identify your elected officials using the table below. The second step is to get politically engaged and advocate for this issue in a sample email to your elected official. You may use these websites to help in your search: Find Your United States Senators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact Find Your United States Member of the House of Representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Find Your State's Governor: https://www.usa.gov/state-governor E Instructions Write a 300-word email to your representative advocating for an issue. Examples include: student loan reform, reproductive rights, healthcare, environmental policies, education/daycare programs, immigration reform, international issues, gender/racial equality, criminal justice reform, gun reform. Section 1: Explain the problem. Include at least five pieces of data to support your position Section 2: Include which interest groups support your position and their efforts in support of your position Section 3: Ask for specific action9s) to be taken as a solution o Support or opposition of a specific bill o A policy change advocated by interest groups o Your own solution