IM: I would love to be involved in 2020 elections somehow. YS: How do you think this Monopoly Man play would impact the upcoming elections? I have now used this to blend in and ultimately stand out. Going to law school helped me learn how to talk to people who are in power and try to kind of blend in. I grew up very middle class, and don’t really have anyone in my family who moves in these kinds of DC spaces. One of the main things that I learnt from law school is how to conduct myself in elite circles as a professional. IM: I don’t practice law every day, I do more policy work and my legal education is more helpful just in terms of understanding how the laws that I am advocating for function in real life. YS: How has your background in law helped with your brand of activism? She has inspired young left-leaning people in the US to come to DC and make change for the better. And luckily, now Warren is becoming less of the exception and more of the norm. In fact, Elizabeth Warren was the first politician I really believed was a regular person with our best interest at heart and that’s what really drove me to come to DC and do that kind of work. I collaborated with Senator Warren to do a couple of videos in character as well. She inspired all of that and this career path led me to work on the issue of forced arbitration, which eventually led to Monopoly Man. IM: When I was working as a legal fellow for Senator Warren, I got interested in the issues of consumer protection, economic justice. YS: What got you started on this project? And nothing has got the kind of attention and interest as these kinds of stunts.” “I am a policy lawyer here in DC, I do very serious types of advocacies as well. The point for me is to get some attention so that I can talk to reporters and the media about the real reason I am there and get the message out there. Monopoly Man tends to work a lot for these corporate CEOs but I have also done other types of characters ( for instance when Mark Zuckerberg had to testify, Madrigal dressed up as a Russian troll). It’s because a lot of Americans, in particular, don’t pay attention to these hearings, so I go to the ones I believe deserve more attention.Īnd I always try to match the character to the hearing. IM: I strategically pick hearings I want to highlight. YS: Some critics have called it a PR/creative stunt – what’s your response to that? But many of us are using it to advance causes. Some people are inevitably going to use it to hurt people. There’s a thing about internet culture that brings out the worst in humans and there’s a lot of it that brings out the best in us too. You can use all of the tools that he uses with a more inspiring approach. He has made a lot of people reconsider the norms that we have in the US and unfortunately, he is doing all these things with a not-so-good purpose in mind. I think he has made a lot of people laugh, even if we haven’t wanted to. IM: You can use any tool either way, right? For example, (US President) Donald Trump has shown the power of entertainment and of breaking rules.
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