EMILYs List Congratulates Lucia Báez-Geller on Her Primary Victory in Florida’s 27th Congressional District
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates Lucia Báez-Geller on her primary victory in Florida’s 27th Congressional District. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
“Lucia Báez-Geller is a teacher and community leader who has the talent and shared experiences that make her the perfect candidate to represent Florida’s 27th Congressional District, and we are proud to congratulate her on this primary victory. Throughout her career, Lucia has shown her commitment to providing quality education for students across the country and restoring reproductive rights in Florida and across the country. She is prepared to stand up against Republican anti-choice extremist Rep. María Elvira Salazar and we are thrilled to support her in this election.”
Lucia Báez-Geller is an educator, community leader, and proud Floridian who currently serves as a school board member and champion for students in the Miami-Dade County School Board’s 3rd District. The daughter of working parents from Colombia and Cuba, Báez-Geller was a first-generation college student in the United States and went on to teach English and language arts to thousands of Miami’s public school students for 15 years. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Political Advocate of the Year Award from the National Education Association. In Congress, she’ll fight to make sure every student has the education and opportunity they need to thrive — including the students she fights for on the school board every day who are being impacted by the state GOP’s rampant and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Báez-Geller and her husband David have a two-year-old daughter.
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, works to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities. Our work is centered around a fundamental vision: Run. Win. Change the World. EMILYs List has raised $850 million in service to that vision and has helped Democratic women win competitive elections by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running one of the largest independent expenditure operations for Democrats, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country’s first woman as vice president, 175 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,500 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Visit www.emilyslist.org for more information.
