EMILYs List Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2021

EMILYs List Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, released the following statement celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month:
  
“EMILYs List is honored to support and help elect groundbreaking Latina leaders who contribute to our country’s cultural, social, and economic growth. A few of our women include: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Del. Hala Ayala (VA), our 2021 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award winner, Harris County (TX) Judge Lina Hidalgo, and one of our 2021 Rising Star nominees, New York State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (AD-39). Like all the candidates we endorse, our Latina officials take the lead on crucial policies that ensure our families are safe, including voting rights and reproductive justice. There are a record number of Latinx leaders in the 117th Congress, and EMILYs List is proud of the Latinas who are serving on the front line and representing their communities.”
 
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 158 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.