Who is Stacey Abrams?
A: Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights
activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from
2007 to 2017.
Abrams is a member of what party?
A: The Democratic Party.
Abrams founded what organization to address voter
suppression in 2018?
A: Fair Fight Action.
A voting rights activist, her efforts have been widely
credited with doing what?
A: Boosting voter turnout in Georgia.
Abrams was the Democratic nominee in what?
A: The 2018 Georgia gubernatorial
election, becoming the first African
American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States.
She lost the election to whom?
A: Republican candidate Brian Kemp.
She refused to concede, accusing Kemp of what?
A: Engaging in voter suppression as Georgia Secretary of State.
News outlets and fact checkers have found claims of a
stolen election difficult to what?
A: Prove.
In February 2019, Abrams became the first African
American woman to do what?
A: To deliver a response to the State of the Union address.
On December 1, 2021, she announced she would run for
what?
A: Governor in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Abrams has also found success as an author of what?
A: Both fiction and nonfiction.
Her nonfiction books, Our Time Is Now and Lead from the
Outside, were what?
A: New York Times best sellers.
Outside of politics, Abrams has published how many
fiction books?
A: Eight.
What pen name did she use?
A: Selena Montgomery.
While Justice Sleeps was released on May 11, 2021,
under her what?
A: Her real name.
Abrams also wrote a what?
A: A children's book, Stacey's Extraordinary Words, released in December
2021.
The second of six siblings, Abrams was born to whom?
A: Robert and Carolyn Abrams.
Where was she born?
A: In Madison, Wisconsin.
Where was she raised?
A: In Gulfport, Mississippi.
The family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents
pursued what?
A: Graduate degrees at Emory University.
They later became what?
A: Methodist ministers.
She attended what high school?
A: Avondale High School, graduating as valedictorian.
While in high school, she was hired as a what?
A: A typist for a congressional campaign.
At age 17, she was hired as a what?
A: A speechwriter based on the edits she had made while typing.
In 1995, Abrams earned a what?
A: A Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies (political
science,
economics, and sociology) from Spelman College, magna-cum-laude.
While in college, she worked where?
A: In the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard
Jackson.
She later interned where?
A: At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
As a freshman in 1992, Abrams took part in a protest on
the steps of the Georgia Capitol, during which she joined in what?
A: Burning the state flag.
At that time, Georgia's state flag incorporated what?
A: The Confederate battle flag.
As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, where did Abrams study
public policy?
A: At the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs,
where she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998.
In 1999, she earned a what?
A: A Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.