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On The Rise
From activists and local leaders to business executives and federal officeholders, women and members of the LGBTQ+ community have been instrumental in affecting political change. These 19th profiles tell the stories of people who may not be known yet, but are poised to become household names.
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Stacey Abrams announces a second run for Georgia governor in 2022
Abrams, who lost to Brian Kemp in 2018, has become a prominent voice on voting rights issues and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.
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Biden nominates Shalanda Young to lead ‘the nerve center of our government’
If confirmed by the Senate, Young will be the first woman of color to formally helm the Office of Management and Budget.
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‘I don’t think we can be alarmist enough’: NARAL’s new leader steps in as abortion rights look increasingly endangered
NARAL Pro-Choice America announced its new president: Mini Timmaraju, former adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the first woman of color to lead the organization.
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Fadwa Hammoud, who made history arguing a Supreme Court case, wants to make room for other voices
Michigan’s solicitor general was the first Arab-American Muslim woman to make an oral argument before the justices
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Senate confirms Beth Robinson as the first out LGBTQ+ woman to serve on a federal appeals court
The Vermont judge helped lay the groundwork for marriage equality in 1999 when she argued for legal protections for same-sex couples.
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No AAPI women have ever been elected to the New Jersey statehouse. That’s expected to change this year.
At least six Asian American or Pacific Islander women will be on the November 2 ballot.
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Boston will elect someone other than a White man as mayor for the first time
Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, both women of color, will advance to the two-person general mayoral election set for November 2.
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These two women have potential to play outsized role in Virginia abortion rights
What one lieutenant governor’s race previews about the politics of reproductive health care in next year’s midterm election cycle.
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Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava on what the world has to learn from the Surfside condo collapse
Daniella Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, talks about the experience of helping the public grieve one of the deadliest structural building failures in history.
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Kathy Hochul’s rise in New York spotlights the barriers to women becoming governors
"I want by the end of my administration, for every woman to say there are no barriers, there is no longer a ceiling."