I always highly admired the skills of the Americorps volunteers that I worked with for the last three years. I didn’t get how they had the energy to get up to do calisthenics at the crack of dawn, mentor and tutor school children and then plan elaborate productions for their peers late into the night only to wake up and do it all over again the following day. I wanted to know what fueled them. And so I jumped right in to see for myself what it truly means to give back.

A little less than a month ago, I was part of the team that helped to produce the Video Voter Guide: a tool designed to provide New Yorkers with profiles of candidates that will help them make more informed decisions in the voting booth.