Stacey Abrams
Politician, lawyer and author
Stacey Abrams is an American politician, lawyer and voting rights activist who founded Fair Fight Action. She wrote Lead from the Outside.
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American Born 1973 in Madison, United States
About Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1973 and grew up in Mississippi and Georgia. She earned degrees from Spelman College and Yale Law School, and also studied public policy at the University of Texas. From 2007 to 2017 she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, holding the post of minority leader from 2011 to 2017. She was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018 and again in 2022. In 2019 she became the first African-American woman to give the response to the State of the Union address. In 2018 she founded Fair Fight Action, an organization working against voter suppression. Her nonfiction books Our Time Is Now and Lead from the Outside were both New York Times best sellers. Lead from the Outside, formerly titled Minority Leader, is a guide to making change in civic work, politics or business. Before 2021 she also wrote eight novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery, and she has written a children's book, Stacey's Extraordinary Words.