This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.
When 16-year-old Mila Nirshberg knocked on a door in Denver while canvassing for Phil Weiser, Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor, she expected to talk politics. Instead, the person told her they didn’t care about politics and ordered her off the property.
The interaction was eye-opening for Nirshberg, who remembered a message Weiser often shares with campaign volunteers: “You may not be into politics, but politics are into you.”
For Nirshberg, a Jewish
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