About Us

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Our story

The Georgia Muslim Voter Project (GAMVP) was founded in 2015 in response to prevailing anti-Muslim rhetoric in mainstream politics. Muslim communities across Georgia were often overlooked and seen as disempowered or lacking influence in the political landscape and rarely outreached to during elections, leading to low rates of civic engagement across Georgia Muslim communities. 

Since then, GAMVP has created programs that outreach to Muslim communities across Georgia by holding voter registration drives, voter education sessions, and community conversations to increase civic engagement in these communities. 

GAMVP has activated over 100,000 Muslims across Georgia by hosting programs that make the electoral process and legislative process accessible.

  • Our Mission

    Our mission is to activate Muslim voters in order to elevate our voices. We stand for equal representation and justice in all forms.

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Areas We Serve

GAMVP currently serves more than dozen counties throughout Georgia, including:

  • Fayette

  • Clayton

  • Houston

  • Henry

  • Columbia

  • Dougherty

  • Muscogee

  • Chatham

  • Gwinnett

  • Fulton

  • Cobb

  • DeKalb

  • Forsyth

  • Richmond

  • Athens-Clarke

  • Macon-Bibb

We are committed to expanding our efforts to every corner of Georgia to ensure that every Muslim is heard and civically engaged.

Our History

  • 2015

    The Georgia Muslim Voter Project was founded in late 2015, in response to the growing anti-Muslim rhetoric that was prevalent in mainstream politics and the low rates of civic engagement in the Muslim community.

  • 2016

    GAMVP was able to register 1,000 new voters. We also held a series of civic engagement workshops at mosques around the Metro Atlanta area to teach the community about the basics of civic engagement.

  • 2017

    GAMVP and local partners hosted a forum for the Roswell City Council Special Election. The forum was held at Roswell Community Masjid—the first time a candidate forum has been hosted at a mosque in Georgia.

  • 2018

    GAMVP registered 1,500 voters to date. Ahead of the midterm elections, we made nearly 2,000 get out the vote phone calls. With the efforts of GAMVP and our coalition partners, the Asian-American turnout for the election tripled!

  • 2019

    Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election, the GAMVP team expanded by several members and was able to host voter registration events nearly every day. We also held voter education forums for the year’s local and municipal elections.

  • 2020

    Despite a global pandemic and social distancing, GAMVP played a pivotal role in increasing civic participation from Muslim communities across Georgia, contributing to historic voter turnout in Black and AAPI communities during the 2020 General and State Runoff elections.

  • 2021

    GAMVP registered 362 new voters leading up to municipal elections, held over 30 civic education workshops across the state, and turned our focus to strengthening our infrastructure and programming in preparation for the 2022 Midterm elections.

  • 2022

    GAMVP registered 871 new voters while launching targeted outreach efforts through doorknocking, phonebanking, textbanking, mailers, and digital ads to get Muslim communities out to the polls. We also launched three new programs and held several non-partisan candidate forums.