TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISON) — Troy’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) hosted a guest speaker to help students learn more about voter registration.

Tuesday night, the NPHC hosted a Voter Summit, which aimed to encourage students to go out and vote. Guest speaker Khadidah Stone from Alabama Forward answered students’ questions and provided voter information.

Alabama Forward is a network that works to get citizens involved in the civic engagement process.

”I just want people to feel empowered at the end of the day,” Stone said. ”I’ve actually been in this work since I was fourteen years old. My father got sentenced 60 years in prison for selling marijuana and so I took it upon myself to fight for his release and that actually happened while I was in college.”

Part of Stone’s visit included reminding students that voters have the ability to promote change.

”We all have individual power and it’s up to us to be the change we want to be in the world,” Stone told TrojanVision.

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Ryan Carson was one of the students who attended the summit. Prior to attending the event, she was unaware of her voter registration status.

”I wanted to learn more about voting. I’ve heard a little bit about it, but I haven’t been too well informed and I thought this would be the right place to come,” Carson said.

After the summit, Carson checked that she was good to go in November.

”We had people come to my high school earlier this year and get people to vote but I was seventeen at the time, so I wanted to make sure that when I turned eighteen that I was able to vote and I was in the system,” Carson explained.

For more information about voting in Alabama, visit the Alabama Secretary of State’s website. There, you can learn how to register to vote and check your voter status.