evidence: The biggest one is getting people to take me seriously. When you're young and inexperienced, you're treated like you're not a serious candidate, even if you have more money, more volunteers and more support than other candidates. [...] You’re refusing to take contributions from corporate interests, instead entirely funding your campaign through grassroots donations. What is your fundraising strategy and where have you found success? I decided to completely swear off corporate PAC money and to not try and appease wealthy donors. We've actually raised over $200,000, which is currently more money than all other people in our race. With well over $200,000 I think that's enough to be viable when you have the actual grassroots support on top of that. We’ve shown that you don't actually need to take corporate PAC money to be a well-funded campaign. That’s allowed us to pay every single member of our staff a living wage of $21 per hour.