Feb 7, 2022
Stacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Time
is Now and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur, and political
leader. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of
Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, in 2018, Abrams became
the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia. Abrams was the
first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major
party in the United States. After witnessing the gross
mismanagement of the 2018 election by the Secretary of State’s
office, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a
voice in our election system. Over the course of her career, Abrams
has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights,
training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social
issues at both the state and national levels. In 2019, she launched
Fair Count to ensure accuracy in the 2020 Census and greater
participation in civic engagement, and the Southern Economic
Advancement Project, a public policy initiative to broaden economic
power and build equity in the South.
She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, and a
current member of the Board of Directors for the Center for
American Progress. Abrams has also written eight romantic suspense
novels under the pen name Salena Montgomery and will release her
first legal thriller, While Justice Sleeps, in May 2021.