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WWW.JEWISHAZ.COM ground job in social work was assisting
victims of gender-based violence, which
became her specialty. It wasn’t an issue
she sought out, however; it was one that
found her.

In her second year of a master’s
program in social work at Arizona State
University, she interned at the Arizona
Coalition Against Domestic Violence (it
would later change its name to Arizona
Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic
Violence or AzCADV) and discovered a
subject that had “clear-cut answers as to
how to actually address the problem” but
no political will to do it.

The issue also encapsulated many of the
reasons she wanted to be a social worker:
women’s and children’s wellbeing, their
economic safety and security; the impact
of gun violence on the community;
poverty and health care.

“It’s all interwoven, interconnected
and it just became my life’s work,”
she said.

It’s also how she met Hobbs. Bones
worked as the Coalition’s lobbyist while
Hobbs was the director of government
relations for Sojourner Center, Arizona’s
largest domestic violence shelter.

“We really learned the legislature
together starting in the 2001 session,
advocating for more funding for domestic
violence programs,” Bones said. Later,
they were also part of Emerge, a program
that recruits and trains Democratic
women to run for political office.

The two developed a friendship
and stayed in touch. But their career
paths diverged.

Bones became AzCADV’s CEO. (She
also served on the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater Phoenix’s
board and is a member of the National
Council of Jewish Women of Arizona.)
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Allie Bones stands in front of Tres Leches Cafe near the State Capitol.

She was happy with her job at the
Coalition and assumed she would stay for
the rest of her career.

Then she received a call from Hobbs,
who had gone from minority leader of the
state Senate to Secretary of State. Would
she like to become the assistant secretary?
The last few years at the helm of
AzCADV, Bones thought a lot about
how cr ucial voting, finding good
candidates and democracy are to ending
gender-based violence because of how
foundational they are in building the
political will “to actually do the things
that need to be done.”
Equally important was convincing
people who worked on issues like
gender-based violence and the survivors
themselves to see par ticipation in
democracy as necessary.

A job at the Secretary of State’s office
was a great opportunity to expand those
ideas to the state writ large.

“Getting more people engaged in and
participating in our democracy, I felt,
would have a ripple effect,” she said.

She didn’t know yet just how fragile
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Then came 2020, and two things shook
up elections across the country, and her
office, in particular.

The first was the COVID-19 pandemic
that panicked a large number of people
to request a mail-in ballot rather than risk
infection by going to the polls. Helpfully,
Arizonans were used to mail-in voting
already, but when some politicians began
questioning the validity of the process, it
created a lot of headaches for Bones and
her colleagues.

“Our key words were preparation and
partnership, and we felt like we had done
everything that we could to prepare. The
counties had all the supplies they needed
to deal with voters who wanted to vote
in person in the middle of the pandemic,
all the security measures in place and all
of the preparation — we felt really ready
in the days leading up to the election,”
Bones said.

The second shoe dropped after the
November election. Arizona was called
early for Joe Biden, much earlier than
anyone had anticipated, and media
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