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.
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.
Michigan’s solicitor general was the first Arab-American Muslim woman to make an oral argument before the justices
The Vermont judge helped lay the groundwork for marriage equality in 1999 when she argued for legal protections for same-sex couples.
At least six Asian American or Pacific Islander women will be on the November 2 ballot.
Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, both women of color, will advance to the two-person general mayoral election set for November 2.
What one lieutenant governor’s race previews about the politics of reproductive health care in next year’s midterm election cycle.
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.
"I want by the end of my administration, for every woman to say there are no barriers, there is no longer a ceiling."
Jackson was named by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a position regarded as a stepping stone to some of the highest legal positions in the government.
They are lawmakers, community organizers and relatives of victims. And they’re a microcosm of the gun violence prevention efforts playing out in statehouses across the nation — amid congressional gridlock and daily shootings.