Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. Abrams was the Democratic party’s nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. She lost to Brian Kemp in an election marked by accusations that Kemp engaged in voter suppression. In February 2019, Abrams became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address.
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Stacey Yvonne Abrams (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. Abrams was the Democratic party’s nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. She lost to Brian Kemp in an election marked by accusations that Kemp engaged in voter suppression. In February 2019, Abrams became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. She was one of 16 electors selected to cast Georgia’s votes in the Electoral College for Joe Biden following the 2020 presidential election. In 2010, while a member of the Georgia General Assembly, Abrams co-founded and served as the senior vice president of NOW Corp., a financial services firm. She is CEO of Sage Works, a legal consulting firm that has represented clients including the Atlanta Dream of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Abrams is the daughter of Robert and Carolyn Abrams, a Methodist minister and former mayor of Gulfport, Mississippi. She has a daughter, a son, and a daughter-in-law, both of whom she has raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She lives with her husband and three children in suburban Atlanta, where she works as a speechwriter for a congressional campaign. In 2018, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. She also wrote a book about her experiences as a politician and a lawyer, titled “Stacey Abrams: My Journey from Typist to Politician to Legislator” She is married to former Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, and has a son and daughter with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
She currently lives in Atlanta with husband Brian Kemp and her daughter, Abigail Abrams, and her husband, Brian Kemp, is a former Georgia state senator and current Georgia secretary of state. In 2011, Abrams argued that a Republican proposal to cut income taxes while increasing a cable service tax would lead to a net increase in taxes paid by most people. She co-sponsored legislation that preserved the HOPE scholarship program by decreasing the amount paid to Georgia students and funded a low-interest loan program for students. In 2012, she co-authored legislation that reduced prison sentences by 1%. In 2013, she helped pass a bill that reduced criminal-justice-related fines by $1,000. In 2014, she was elected to the National Council of Legislators, the highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Reps. to serve on the House Judiciary Non-Civil, Rules and Ways & Means committees. In 2015, Abrams was elected as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, the second-highest-ranking party in the state legislature. In 2016, she became the state’s first openly gay member of Congress, serving in a district that includes Atlanta and DeKalb County. In 2017, she won the Democratic primary election with 51% of the vote, avoiding a runoff election, and was re-elected to the House in November.
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