EMILYs List Recognizes Disability Pride Month

For Immediate Release

July 31, 2021

EMILYs List Recognizes Disability Pride Month

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, recognized Disability Pride Month. Emily Cain, the executive director of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List has been honored to join the disabled community in celebrating Disability Pride Month this July, commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and supporting those calling for greater access and justice for people with disabilities. EMILYs List candidates, including trailblazer Sen. Tammy Duckworth, continue to serve as evidence that when women lead, especially women with diverse lived experiences, better policies are made to support marginalized communities. This year, Sen. Duckworth has sponsored a number of bills to increase access for people with disabilities including in exercise, transit, and the tax code. We are proud to help elect Democratic pro-choice women across the country who are creating a more equitable and accessible society.”

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.