“I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.”

American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author

Stacey Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 and was minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she founded Fair Fight Action in 2018 to address voter suppression. Her work has been widely credited with helping increase voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election and the state’s U.S. Senate races that helped give Democrats control of the chamber.