With little more than 20 days leading up to the presidential election, a cohort of MIT student groups came together to organize a voting extravaganza well-suited for physical distancing. Get Out the Vote Fest was a virtual music festival — self-described as a “voter mobilization festival” — featuring headliners like Yo-Yo Ma and Bren Joy, as well as myriad artists across the United States. The event took place on Sunday, Oct. 11, just before MIT observed its first official Indigenous Peoples Day. According to junior Yu Jing Chen, the vice…
