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Stacey Yvonne Abrams (/ ˈ eɪ b r ə m z /; [1] born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, author, and perennial candidate [2] who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. [3]
Gardner is the daughter of the Reverend Carolyn and the Reverend Robert Abrams, originally of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.She was one of six children. Her older sister Stacey Abrams is the former House Minority Leader in the Georgia General Assembly, and the Democratic nominee for governor in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election [2] [3] and 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Abrams is a surname related to Abrahams, Abram, Abrahm and Abraham. It developed independently in the Jewish diaspora , England , Germany and the Netherlands . [ 1 ] The name and its variants have been found in England since the medieval era in the Domesday Book and Hundred Rolls . [ 2 ]
Democrat Stacey Abrams, the renowned voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, argued the U.S. was nearly “evenly divided” when President-elect Trump won the 2024 ...
Stacey Abrams during a concession speech to supporters at an election-night party in Nov. 2022 upon losing her bid for governor to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp in a rematch of their 2018 race.
“Public service is the intention; public office is the tool," Abrams said at the Fortune Impact Initiative conference on Wednesday.
Abrams has stated she will "use my energies and my very loud voice to raise the money we need to train those across the country in our 20 battleground states". [ 9 ] Fair Fight Action joined the Voter Empowerment Task Force, which is composed of other civil rights groups such as GA NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Georgia Coalition for ...
Former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams is confident that if one elusive voting bloc overwhelmingly votes for her in Georgia’s gubernatorial election in November, she will win.