. >> the moderator for the panel is erica williams. she is the deputy director of progress 2050 and serves as the senior adviser to campus progress. i will turn it over to erica. >> welcome everyone. we are a very, very large generation. these are people born after 1982. we are predicted to make up nearly 20% of the american electorate. that is pretty big. the project that i worked on now focus is on our increasingly diverse america. this is predicted to be a minority/majority population. we are progressive but not politically or ideologically monolithic. conventional wisdom says that we young voters are elusive. many people in this room can spend it the entirety of today hearing from experts talking to young people and trying to figure out what is the mystery about engaging young voters and hopefully, you ever heard it is not a mystery but is part art, science, style, substance, and we saw that never before in a way in 2008 when there was a record turnout from young voters, nearly 51%, about 22 million young people turned out in the el