Students at Taylor High School and Jordan High School have launched an effort to inform voters in the Chinese community and to increase voter turnout.

Register the Future, a non-partisan initiative increasing voter engagement in immigrant communities, is being led by the two student groups, along with over 200+ high school translators and volunteers. Register the Future was founded by Sunny Pu, a junior from James E. Taylor High School, with the intent of rectifying voting gaps seen in her Chinese community. There are around ten students/volunteers within the Taylor chapter under the direction of President Sherry [last name withheld on request], and four in the Jordan chapter, led by President Sameeha Mohammed.

“From August 2025 to today, we have created and distributed over 10,500 voter guides to libraries and community centers in the Katy and Houston region, and many other cities in Texas,” Pu told the Katy Times in an email interview. “We have translated these guides into more than five languages in order to help make the voting process more accessible and culturally relevant.”

The group has raised over $20,000 through fundraising and grants supported by major corporations, such as a $8,500 grant supplied from the Carnegie Young Fellows for Civic Preparedness Program, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, according to Pu.

“Initially, we applied for the program as the ME Voting Database, which represents the Midterm Elections Voting Database, as we meant to only provide voter guides for the midterm elections,” Pu said. “However, after months of work, we realized the significance and the impact of our voter guides, and we wished to expand our mission towards all elections in the future, instead of just the midterms. That’s why our current name is Register the Future, not ME Voting Database (which is the name listed under previous media coverage). However, it is the exact same organization.”

The M.E. Voting Database and Guides project is dedicated to making information about local candidates and their positions on key social issues accessible and easy to understand, according to the Carnegie website. By providing translated voter guides and digital tools, the initiative addresses the language barriers that prevent many adolescents and non-English-speaking communities from making informed voting decisions or fully participating in civic processes. Through translating and simplifying candidate information, M.E. Voting Database and Guides aims to empower more young people and multilingual voters to engage in democracy and support candidates who reflect their values.

Register the Future initially distributed their voter guides through libraries in the Katy and Houston and at the Katy Pride Festival for the March elections but plan on expanding to even more libraries in the coming months, Pu said. To learn more, go to www.voteresourcehub.org.