I am putting together my advocacy essay and I just wanted to sanity check that I have not picked too controversial a topic:
My essay here revolves around the rights of the incarcerated, depending on the prompt I talk either about working with "ban the box" advocacy (a legislative effort to strengthen protections for the formerly incarcerated against employment discrimination) or visiting with a person who was on death row who shares some facets of my own identity as part of working with anti-death-penalty activism.
I think this should be ok, but I realized that advocating for the incarcerated sometimes makes more "uptight" (for lack of a better word) people uncomfortable. I'm largely applying to universities in cities in blue states but I just wanted a sanity check on this. Thoughts?
My essay here revolves around the rights of the incarcerated, depending on the prompt I talk either about working with "ban the box" advocacy (a legislative effort to strengthen protections for the formerly incarcerated against employment discrimination) or visiting with a person who was on death row who shares some facets of my own identity as part of working with anti-death-penalty activism.
I think this should be ok, but I realized that advocating for the incarcerated sometimes makes more "uptight" (for lack of a better word) people uncomfortable. I'm largely applying to universities in cities in blue states but I just wanted a sanity check on this. Thoughts?
