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STACEY ABRAMS

b. 1973

Madison, Wisconsin

Lawyer, activist

A leading contemporary politician, Stacey Abrams, set her sights on politics track early on by earning a B.A. from Spelman, M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin, and aJ.D. from Yale. By the age of 29, she was appointed the Deputy City Attorney for Atlanta.

From 2007 to 2017, Abrams served in the Georgia House of Representatives, becoming the first Black woman in Georgia to be House Minority leader in 2010.

In 2013 her voter registration initiative, The New Georgia Project, helped garner over 80k new voter applications. On that same coin, along with Latosha Brown, Nsé Ufot, and others, Abrams and her Fair Fight initiative helped turn Georgia blue in the 2020 Presidential election.

  • First Black woman in the U.S. to be a major party's nominee for governor

    First Black woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address

  • “Stacey [Abrams], Latosha Brown and Nsé Ufot deserve SO much praise for what they’ve done for Black voters in this country.”

    - Monique L.

  • Fair Fight website

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