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Why Mark Ruffalo Joined the Navajo Nation’s 3-Mile Walk to the Polls: ‘This System Hasn’t Been Fair’

"It's a commemoration of the long struggle, the resilience, and resistance, and beauty of this culture," Ruffalo tells PEOPLE

The 56-year-old actor traveled to the Navajo Nation on Saturday, Oct. 12, to participate in Walk to the Polls, a civic campaign to boost voter turnout among young Indigenous people in the 2024 presidential election. During the 2020 presidential election season, the Diné were grappling with the severe impact of COVID-19, which led Ruffalo to partner with Young on spreading accurate information about the virus's danger. Ruffalo, who was also joined on the Walk to the Polls by actor Wilmer Valderrama and Native American actress Cara Jade Myers, expressed his happiness in celebrating a community that holds deep significance for him.

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