Christine Rousselle is a Leadership Institute trained activist who recently wrote an article entitled "My Time At Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform" that has gone viral.  

Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed the story, and the piece has been discussed on just about every single news website (both left and right) on the internet.

It is a shot heard around the blogosphere, with conservative commentators applauding her amusing insights, while the usual gaggle of leftists decry her candid stories about their beloved welfare system.

Mark Levin has stated that Christine is going to be famous one day and Christine claims her greatest ambition is to become the new Ann Coulter.  Witty and gutsy columns like this indicate she may not be far from such a goal, and hopefully we see many more to come in the near future.

Fortunately, I was able to catch up with Christine in between her busy schedule of exams and right wing activism to explore her motivations behind the piece, how it spread so quickly, and why she thinks it's become such a hot topic.

Christine Rousselle is a Leadership Institute trained activist who recently wrote an article entitled "My Time At Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform" that has gone viral.  

Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed the story, and the piece has been discussed on just about every single major news website (both left and right) on the internet.

It is a shot heard around the blogosphere, with conservative commentators applauding her amusing insights, while the usual gaggle of leftists decry her candid stories about their beloved welfare state.

Mark Levin stated that Christine is going to be famous one day and Christine claims her greatest ambition is to become the new Ann Coulter.  Witty and gutsy columns like this indicate she may not be far from such a lofty goal, and hopefully we see many more to come in the near future.

Fortunately, I was able to catch up with Christine to explore her motivations behind the piece, how it spread so quickly, and why she thinks it's become such a hot topic.

Below are my questions and Christine's responses:

Sometimes students will not give you their names and contact info if you're openly and explicitly trying to recruit new members for your group, but those same students will sometimes give you that information if they think that they are merely voicing support for or opposition against something.

Apparently, many students want their voices to be heard but don't want to be bothered to join a group or to actually do something requiring much time and effort to have their voices heard and their views become policy.

Your student group can take advantage of this phenomenon through petitioning fellow students. Petitions allow students to have their voices heard if you submit the petition to the person in authority, whether it be the university president, the board of regents/trustees, or an elected official. But petitions, to have legitimacy or credibility, also require contact information so that their authenticity can be verified.