Ana Luisa Farias, Phoenix, AZ

Ana Luisa Farias, a 19-year-old recent graduate from Phoenix, Arizona, is voting for the first time because she wants to live in a better country.  The petite Hispanic latches onto the economy as soon as the subject is raised; both her father and her husband are concerned about it as well.  Without a change, she says, the economy will continue to slip downwards.

She's excited to be able to vote, and urges her friends and other young people to do the same.