Late last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez detailed her experience during the Capitol attack on January 6th via a live video on her Instagram account.  On a Monday night, before a streaming audience of more than 160,000 people (and with views now reaching over 5.6 million) Ocasio-Cortez describes her day in the Capitol complex as violent …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: Stacey Abrams Has Been Nominated for A Nobel Peace Prize Jenna Amatulli, HuffPost Voting rights activist and former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives Stacey Abrams …

“I’m here today because of the women who came before me,” Kamala Harris said to the crowd gathered to celebrate her before being elected as the 49th Vice President of the United States. Harris broke through one of the most long-standing barriers in American public office when she became the first woman elected Vice President …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: Sarah Huckabee Sanders announces gubernatorial campaign Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill On Monday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she will be running for governor of Arkansas. The former White …

(Updated as of June 2023) On the road to building a team that “looks like America,” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made diversity a priority, and their administration is on track to becoming the most LGBTQ-inclusive in history. These LGBTQ appointees to the Biden administration, which includes the first openly LGBTQ …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: Vice President Harris: A New Chapter Opens in US Politics Kathleen Ronayne & Alexandra Jaffe, AP News When Kamala Harris was sworn in on January 20th, she broke …

On January 5th the Georgia Senate Runoff election was the culmination of a sprint by Democratic organizing groups to flip two Republican-held Seats in a state that hadn’t had Democratic Senators in a generation. The groundwork for the Senate flip was laid almost a decade ago by Black and other women of color leaders, most …

Today’s inauguration marks the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration and the historic Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris’s trailblazing rise to Vice President has changed the face of politics in our country, and today’s transition of power brings other shifts to the landscape for gender in national politics. With a potentially unprecedented number of …

You’ve been following our series on the notable women appointed to the Biden-Harris administration. As the inauguration on January 20th approaches and we wrap up this series, we will be continuing to update the list of trailblazing women on our tracker. Check out Women on Wednesdays, a virtual conversation hosted by The Women & Politics …