About NewVote
NewVote Nevada is a new 501(c)(4) grassroots organization founded with the mission to educate, empower, and inspire young Nevadans to improve their communities through the ballot box with year-round organizing on and off college campuses.
Founded in Nevada, for Nevada NewVote aims to make the Silver State the Golden Standard for youth voter participation nationwide.
About NewVote’s Founder
Mark Riffenburg founded NewVote Nevada in 2024. As NextGen America’s Nevada Field Director in 2018, and State Director in 2020, Mark helped build two of Nevada’s highest youth turnout elections in years, leading programs that have registered over ten thousand young Nevadans to vote.
In 2015, Mark moved to Nevada from Massachusetts to organize for Hillary Clinton in the Caucuses. Since then, he has worked with Organizing for Action, Defend Our Future, Reason to Believe PAC, and County Commissioner Justin Jones’ 2022 Campaign.
His work organizing the youth vote in Nevada has been covered in publications from the Nevada Independent to The Atlantic, and BBC.