The New Leader Of EMILYs List On How Politics Needs To Change For Women Of Color

September 17, 2021

NPR: The New Leader Of EMILY's List On How Politics Needs To Change For Women Of Color

By: Juana Summers and Ayesha Rascoe

EMILY's List, the influential Democratic group that has helped elect hundreds of women who support abortion rights, has a new leader.

Laphonza Butler, a longtime union leader and Democratic strategist, is the group's next president, the first Black woman and first mother to hold that role since EMILY's List was founded in 1985.

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