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Stacey Abrams

February 15, 2024

Stacey Yvonne Abrams (/ˈeɪbrəmz/;[1] born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018.[3] Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden narrowly won the state, and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections, which gave Democrats control of the Senate.[4][5][6]

Stacey Abrams
Abrams in 2021
Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives
In office
January 10, 2011 – July 1, 2017
Preceded byDuBose Porter
Succeeded byBob Trammell
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
In office
January 8, 2007 – August 25, 2017
Preceded byJoAnn McClinton
Succeeded byBee Nguyen
Constituency84th district (2007–2013)
89th district (2013–2017)
Personal details
Born
Stacey Yvonne Abrams

(1973-12-09) December 9, 1973 (age 50)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
RelativesLeslie Abrams Gardner (sister)
Residence(s)Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Education
WebsiteOfficial website

Abrams was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States.[7] She narrowly lost the election to Republican candidate Brian Kemp, but refused to concede, accusing Kemp of engaging in voter suppression as Georgia Secretary of State.[8][9] News outlets and political science experts have been unable to determine whether voter suppression affected its result.[10][11] In February 2019, Abrams became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election, and lost again to Kemp, this time by a much larger margin; she conceded on the night of the election.[12]

Abrams is an author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction books, Our Time Is Now and Lead from the Outside, were New York Times best sellers. Abrams wrote eight fiction books under the pen name Selena Montgomery before 2021. While Justice Sleeps was released on May 11, 2021, under her real name. Abrams also wrote a children's book, Stacey's Extraordinary Words, released in December 2021.

Early life and education

The second of six siblings, Abrams was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi where her father was employed in a shipyard and her mother was a librarian.[13][14][15] In 1989, the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents pursued graduate divinity degrees at Emory University.[16][17] They became Methodist ministers and later returned to Mississippi with their three youngest children while Abrams and two other siblings remained in Atlanta.[16][18][19] She attended Avondale High School, graduating as valedictorian in 1991.[20] In 1990, she was selected for the Telluride Association Summer Program.[21] At 17, while still in high school, she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign and then as a speechwriter based on the improvements she made to a campaign speech.[22]

In 1995, Abrams earned a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies (political science, economics, and sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude.[2] While in college, she worked in the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson.[22] She later interned at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[22] As a freshman in 1992, Abrams took part in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, during which she joined in burning the Georgia state flag which, at the time, incorporated the Confederate battle flag. It had been added to the state flag in 1956 as an anti-civil rights movement action.[23][24][25]

As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, Abrams studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998. Afterward, she earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[2]

Legal and business career

After graduating from law school, Abrams worked as a tax attorney at the Sutherland Asbill & Brennan law firm in Atlanta, with a focus on tax-exempt organizations, health care, and public finance.[2] In 2010, while a member of the Georgia General Assembly, Abrams co-founded and served as the senior vice president of NOW Corp. (formerly NOWaccount Network Corporation), a financial services firm.[26][27]

Abrams is CEO of Sage Works, a legal consulting firm that has represented clients including the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association.[28]

Nourish and Now

Abrams co-founded Nourish, Inc. in 2010.[29] Originally conceived as a beverage company with a focus on infants and toddlers,[30] it was later rebranded as Now and pivoted its business model to an invoicing solution for small businesses. Now raised a $9.5 million Series A in 2021.[29]

Rewiring America

In mid-March 2023, community electrification advocacy nonprofit group Rewiring America announced it had hired Abrams as senior counsel.[31][32]

Political career

In 2002, at age 29, Abrams was appointed a deputy city attorney for the City of Atlanta.[2][33]

Georgia General Assembly

In 2006, Abrams ran for the 84th District for the Georgia House of Representatives, following JoAnn McClinton's announcement that she would not seek reelection. Abrams ran in the Democratic Party primary election against former state legislator George Maddox and political operative Dexter Porter. She outraised her two opponents and won the primary election with 51% of the vote, avoiding a runoff election.[34]

 
Abrams in 2012

Abrams represented House District 84 beginning in the 2007 session,[35] and beginning in the 2013 session (following reapportionment), District 89. Both districts covered portions of the City of Atlanta and unincorporated DeKalb County,[36] covering the communities of Candler Park, Cedar Grove, Columbia, Druid Hills, Edgewood, Highland Park, Kelley Lake, Kirkwood, Lake Claire, South DeKalb, Toney Valley, and Tilson.[37][38] She served on the Appropriations, Ethics, Judiciary Non-Civil, Rules, and Ways & Means committees.[39]

In November 2010, the Democratic caucus elected Abrams to succeed DuBose Porter as minority leader over Virgil Fludd.[40] Abrams's first major action as minority leader was to cooperate with Republican governor Nathan Deal's administration to reform the HOPE Scholarship program. She co-sponsored the 2011 legislation that preserved the HOPE program by decreasing the scholarship amount paid to Georgia students and funded a 1% low-interest loan program for students.[41]

According to Time magazine, Abrams "can credibly boast of having single-handedly stopped the largest tax increase in Georgia history."[42] In 2011 Abrams argued that a Republican proposal to cut income taxes while increasing a tax on cable service would lead to a net increase in taxes paid by most people.[42] She performed an analysis of the bill that showed that 82% of Georgians would see net tax increases, and left a copy of the analysis on the desk of every House legislator.[42] The bill subsequently failed.[42]

 
Abrams with John Lewis in 2017

Abrams also worked with Deal on criminal-justice reforms that reduced prison costs without increasing crime,[42] and with Republicans on the state's biggest-ever public transportation funding package.[42]

On August 25, 2017, Abrams resigned from the General Assembly to focus on her gubernatorial campaign.[43]

2018 gubernatorial campaign

Main article: 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election
 
 
Stacey Abrams campaigns in 2018 for Governor of Georgia.
 
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Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018.[44] In the Democratic primary she ran against Stacey Evans, another member of the Georgia House of Representatives,[44] in what some called "the battle of the Staceys". Abrams was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Our Revolution.[45][46] On May 22, she won the Democratic nomination, making her the first Black woman in the U.S. to be a major party's nominee for governor.[7] After winning the primary, Abrams secured a number of high-profile endorsements, including one from former president Barack Obama.[47][48]

Almost a week before election day, the Republican nominee, Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp, canceled a debate scheduled seven weeks earlier to attend a Trump rally. Kemp blamed Abrams for the cancellation, saying she was unwilling to reschedule it. Abrams's campaign manager responded, "We refuse to callously take Georgians for granted and cancel on them. Just because Brian Kemp breaks his promises doesn't mean anyone else should."[49]

Two days before the election, Kemp's office announced that it was investigating the Georgia Democratic Party for unspecified "possible cybercrimes"; the Georgia Democratic Party stated that "Kemp's scurrilous claims are 100 percent false" and described them as a "political stunt".[50] A 2020 investigation by the Georgia attorney general's office concluded that there was no evidence of computer crimes.[51] Later that year, it was revealed that the alleged cybercrime against Kemp's office was in fact a planned security test that one of Kemp's staff members had signed off on three months prior.[52]

As Georgia's secretary of state, Kemp was in charge of elections and voter registration during the election. Kemp was accused of voter suppression during the election between him and Abrams.[53][54][55] Emory University professor Carol Anderson has criticized Kemp as an "enemy of democracy" and "an expert in voter suppression" for his actions as secretary of state.[56] Political scientists Michael Bernhard and Daniel O'Neill described Kemp's actions in the 2018 gubernatorial election as the worst case of voter suppression in that election year.[57] Election law expert Richard L. Hasen called Kemp "perhaps the most incompetent state chief elections officer" in the 2018 elections, pointing to a number of actions that jeopardized Georgia's election security and made it harder for eligible voters to vote.[58] Hasen writes that it was "hard to tell" which of Kemp's "actions were due to incompetence and which were attempted suppression."[58]

Between 2012 and 2018, Kemp's office canceled over 1.4 million voter registrations, with nearly 700,000 cancellations in 2017 alone.[59] On a single night in July 2017, half a million voters had their registrations canceled. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, election-law experts said that this "may represent the largest mass disenfranchisement in US history."[60] Kemp oversaw the removals as secretary of state, and did so eight months after he declared his candidacy for governor.[61] An investigative journalism group run by Greg Palast found that of the approximately 534,000 Georgians whose voter registrations were purged between 2016 and 2017, more than 334,000 still lived where they were registered.[62] The voters were given no notice that they had been purged.[63] Palast sued Kemp, claiming over 300,000 voters were purged illegally.[64] Kemp's office denied any wrongdoing, saying that by "regularly updating our rolls, we prevent fraud and ensure that all votes are cast by eligible Georgia voters."[65]

 
Abrams in 2018

By early October 2018, more than 53,000 voter registration applications had been put on hold by Kemp's office, with more than 75% belonging to minorities.[66][59] The voters were eligible to re-register if they still lived in Georgia.[67][59][61][62]

In a ruling against Kemp, district judge Amy Totenberg found that Kemp's office had violated the Help America Vote Act and said an attempt by Kemp's office to expedite the certification of results "appears to suggest the secretary's foregoing of its responsibility to confirm the accuracy of the results prior to final certification, including the assessment of whether serious provisional balloting count issues have been consistently and properly handled."[68][69]

On November 6, 2018, Abrams lost the election by 54,723 votes.[70] On November 16, 2018, Abrams announced that she was ending her campaign. She emphasized that her statement was not a concession, because "concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper", but acknowledged that she could not close the gap with Kemp to force a runoff.[71] In her campaign-ending speech, Abrams announced the creation of Fair Fight Action, a voting rights nonprofit organization that sued the secretary of state and state election board in federal court for voter suppression.[72]

Fair Fight's lawsuit was initiated in December 2018; according to Politico, it "started as a sprawling case that included allegations of unreasonably long lines and wait times caused by moving and closing polling places; the impact of voter ID rules on people of color, voters with non-Anglo Saxon names and newly naturalized citizens; improper maintenance of Georgia's voter rolls; inadequate training of poll workers; and even the integrity of voting machines".[73] Six months after the lawsuit began, the Georgia legislature passed a law addressing some of its claims, with measures including the implementation of new voting machines with more advanced technology.[74] Fair Fight dropped the claims about voting machines in December 2020, around the time that Donald Trump made baseless claims about voting machine problems in Georgia affecting the 2020 presidential election.[73] In February 2021, a federal judge ruled that Fair Fight's claims about voting machines, voter list security, and polling place issues were resolved by changes in Georgia's election law, or invalidated due to lack of standing to sue.[74][75]

In April 2021, a judge allowed some claims in the legal challenge to proceed while rejecting others.[74] In October 2022, a federal judge ruled against Fair Fight on the remaining claims, finding that Georgia's voting regulations did not violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.[76][77][78] According to the judge, the case "resulted in wins and losses for all parties over the course of the litigation and culminated in what is believed to have been the longest voting rights bench trial in the history of the Northern District of Georgia."[73][79][80] Over the course of the lawsuit, Fair Fight raised $61 million and paid millions to Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams's campaign chair.[73]

Since losing the election, Abrams has repeatedly said that the election was not fairly conducted[9] and has declined to call Kemp the legitimate governor of Georgia.[81] Abrams has since said that she won the election and that the election was "stolen from the voters of Georgia", claims that election law expert Richard L. Hasen said were unproven, though he argued that "it's clear that Kemp did everything in his power to put in place restrictive voting policies that would help his candidacy and hurt his opponent, all while overseeing his own election."[82] Abrams argued that Kemp, who oversaw the election in his role as secretary of state, had a conflict of interest and suppressed turnout by purging nearly 670,000 voter registrations in 2017, and that about 53,000 voter registrations were pending a month before the election.[9][83] She has said, "I have no empirical evidence that I would have achieved a higher number of votes. However, I have sufficient and I think legally sufficient doubt about the process to say that it was not a fair election."[9]

On November 9, 2018, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that its investigation of the 2018 statewide elections in Georgia had found "no evidence ... of systematic malfeasance – or of enough tainted votes to force a runoff election".[84] A USA Today fact check noted that the actions Kemp's office took during the election "can be explained as routine under state and federal law"; political scientist Charles S. Bullock III said there is "not much empirical evidence supporting the assertion that Kemp either suppressed the vote or 'stole' the election from Abrams."[85]

According to Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, Abrams has variously claimed that she "won" the election, that the election was "rigged", that it was "stolen", that it was not "free and fair", and that Kemp had "cheated". Kessler said that "Abrams played up claims the election was stolen until such tactics became untenable for anyone who claims to be an advocate for American democratic norms and values".[86]

Role in federal politics

 
Stacey Abrams and Nancy Pelosi in January 2019

On January 29, 2019, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that Abrams would deliver the response to the State of the Union address on February 5.[87] She was the first African-American woman to give the rebuttal to the address, as well as the first and only non-office-holding person to do so since the State of the Union responses began in 1966.[88] Despite being heavily recruited by Schumer, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to challenge incumbent senator David Perdue, on April 30, 2019, Abrams announced that she would not run for the U.S. Senate in 2020.[89] After Senator Johnny Isakson announced his resignation due to poor health, Abrams declined to run in that election as well, citing a need to focus on ending voter suppression.

On August 17, 2019, Abrams announced the founding of Fair Fight 2020,[90] an organization to assist Democrats financially and technically to build voter protection teams in 20 states.[91] Abrams is Fair Fight Action 2020's chair.[92] Billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed $5 million shortly after announcing his run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.[93][94] On ABC's The View, Abrams defended Bloomberg's spending, saying: "Every person is allowed to run and should run the race that they think they should run, and Mike Bloomberg has chosen to use his finances. Other people are using their dog, their charisma, their whatever."[95] Abrams declined to endorse Bloomberg personally.[96]

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Abrams actively promoted herself for consideration as former vice president Joe Biden's running mate.[97] Kamala Harris was officially announced as Biden's running mate on August 11, 2020.[98] Abrams was selected as one of 17 speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[99]

After Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, both The New York Times and The Washington Post credited Abrams with a large boost in Democratic votes in Georgia and an estimated 800,000 new voter registrations.[6][100] As part of that election, she served as an elector for the state of Georgia.[101]

2022 gubernatorial campaign

Main article: 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election

On December 1, 2021, Abrams announced she would run again for governor of Georgia.[102] She ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on May 24, 2022, and faced Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the November 8 general election.[103] Abrams and Kemp had their first of two scheduled debates on October 17. In the debate, Abrams emphasized her support for gun control and legal access to abortion, while Kemp emphasized Georgia's economy under his governorship and his anti-crime proposals.[104] When asked whether she would accept the results of the election, Abrams declined to directly respond.[105] In the final debate before the election both candidates agreed to accept the results.[106] Abrams lost the November 8, 2022 election to Kemp; she conceded that night.[12]

Political positions

Abrams supports abortion rights, advocates for expanded gun control, and opposes proposals for stricter voter ID laws. She has argued that some implementations of voter ID laws disenfranchise minorities and the poor,[107][108] but does not oppose voter ID laws in principle and supports voters having to verify their identities.[109][110] Abrams pledged to oppose legislation similar to the religious liberty bill that Governor Deal vetoed in 2016.[111][112]

Criminal justice reform

Abrams supports criminal justice reform in the form of no cash bail for poor defendants, abolishing the death penalty, and decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.[107][113] She also supports community policing to keep communities safe as part of criminal justice reform.[114]

Education

Abrams would like to increase spending on public education.[42] She opposes private school vouchers, instead advocating improvements to the public education system. She supports smaller class sizes, more school counselors, protected pensions, better pay for teachers, and expanded early childhood education.[115]

Health care

In her campaign for governor, Abrams said her top priority was Medicaid expansion.[42][116] She cited research showing that Medicaid expansion improved health care access for low-income residents and made hospitals in rural locations financially viable.[116] She also created a plan to address Georgia's high maternal mortality rate.[117]

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Abrams is a strong supporter of Israel and rejects "the demonization and delegitimization of Israel represented" by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which she has called "anti-Semitic".[118][119] But she voted against Georgia's anti-BDS legislation that punishes companies that choose to boycott Israel or Israeli-occupied territories.[120] Abrams wrote, "Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans. As the Anti-Defamation League notes, the origin of BDS is based in the anti-apartheid movement."[118]

Writing career

Outside of politics, Abrams has found success as a fiction writer. Until 2021, she published her works under the pen name Selena Montgomery. She claims to have sold more than 100,000 copies of her novels.[39] She wrote her first novel during her third year at Yale Law School and published her most recent book in 2009.[121] Her legal thriller While Justice Sleeps was published (under her own name) in May 2021.[122] That novel is being produced as a television series by Working Title Films, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures.[123][124] Her writing career and her political career connect through the fundraising event that she inspired, Romancing the Runoff, where romance authors raised funds for voting rights in Georgia.[125]

Two of her nonfiction works, Our Time is Now and Lead from the Outside, were New York Times Best Sellers.[126]

Abrams has published articles on public policy, taxation, and nonprofit organizations.[127] She is the author of Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change (published by Henry Holt & Co. in April 2018),[128] and Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (published by Henry Holt & Co. in June 2020).[129]

Honors and awards

In 2012, Abrams received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award from the Kennedy Library and Harvard University's Institute of Politics, which honors an elected official under 40 whose work demonstrates the impact of elective public service as a way to address public challenges.[130] In 2014 Governing Magazine named her a Public Official of the Year, an award that recognizes state and local official for outstanding accomplishments.[131] Abrams was recognized as one of "12 Rising Legislators to Watch" by the same publication in 2012[132] and one of the "100 Most Influential Georgians" by Georgia Trend for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.[133]

EMILY's List recognized Abrams as the inaugural recipient of the Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award in 2014.[134] She was selected as an Aspen Rodel Fellow[135] and a Hunt-Kean Fellow.[136] In 2014, Abrams was named 11th most influential African American aged 25 to 45 by The Root, rising to first place in 2019.[137][138] Abrams was named Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, Public Servant of the Year by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Outstanding Public Service by the Latin American Association, Champion for Georgia Cities by the Georgia Municipal Association, and Legislator of the Year by the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce.[139]

Abrams received the Georgia Legislative Service Award from the Association County Commissioners Georgia, the Democratic Legislator of the Year from the Young Democrats of Georgia and Red Clay Democrats, and an Environmental Leader Award from the Georgia Conservation Voters.[139] She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[140] a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly,[141] an American Marshall Memorial Fellow,[141] a Salzburg Seminar–Freeman Fellow on U.S.-East Asian Relations,[142] and a Yukos Fellow for U.S.–Russian Relations.[142]

Abrams received the Stevens Award for Outstanding Legal Contributions and the Elmer Staats Award for Public Service, both national honors presented by the Harry S. Truman Foundation.[143][144] She was also a 1994 Harry S. Truman Scholar.[145]

In 2001, Ebony magazine named Abrams one of "30 Leaders of the Future".[146] In 2004 she was named to Georgia Trend's "40 Under 40" list,[147] and the Atlanta Business Chronicle named Abrams to its "Top 50 Under 40" list. In 2006 she was named a Georgia Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine and by Law & Politics Magazine.[148]

Abrams received a single vote, from Kathleen Rice, in the 2019 election for Speaker of the U.S. House.[149]

In 2019, Abrams received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she obtained her Master's of Public Affairs in 1998. The award is the highest honor bestowed upon alumni of the school, with recipients selected by their fellow alumni. The award reflects her "remarkable leadership on behalf of her constituents as well as citizens all over this country", according to Dean Angela Evans.[150]

For her nonviolent campaign to get out the vote, Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.[151] In 2021, she was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[152]

Abrams was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance in 2021 for her work on an election-themed special episode of Black-ish.[153] She lost at the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to Maya Rudolph of Big Mouth.[154]

Other work

 
Abrams with Terri Sewell and Doug Jones at the 55th Anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Alabama in 2020

Abrams has served on the boards of directors for Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the Center for American Progress,[155] Atlanta Metropolitan State College Foundation, Gateway Center for the Homeless, and the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education; and on the advisory boards for Literacy Action and Health Students Taking Action Together (HSTAT). She also serves on the Board of Visitors for Agnes Scott College and the University of Georgia,[156] as well as on the board of advisors for Let America Vote (a voting rights organization founded by former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander).[157]

Abrams has completed seven international fellowships and traveled to "more than a dozen foreign countries" for policy work.[158][159] She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations[160] and spoke at CFR's Conference on Diversity in International Affairs in 2019.[161] She has also spoken at London's Chatham House,[162] the National Security Action Forum,[163] and a conference hosted by the Yale Kerry Initiative and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[164][165] In 2019, Abrams contributed an essay to Foreign Affairs magazine on how identity politics strengthens liberal democracy.[166][167]

Abrams was featured in All In: The Fight For Democracy, a documentary about voter suppression in the United States. In it, she talks about her family's voting struggles in Mississippi and voter suppression during her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign.[168]

Abrams appeared as an actor in "Coming Home", the season 4 finale of Star Trek: Discovery, as the President of United Earth.[169]

Personal life

Abrams is the second of six children born to Reverend Carolyn and Reverend Robert Abrams, originally of Mississippi.[18] Her siblings include Andrea Abrams, U.S. district judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, Richard Abrams, Walter Abrams, and Jeanine Abrams McLean.[170][171]

In April 2018, Abrams wrote an op-ed for Fortune revealing that she owed $54,000 in federal back taxes and held $174,000 in credit card and student loan debt.[172] She was repaying the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) incrementally on a payment plan after deferring her 2015 and 2016 taxes, which she stated was necessary to help with her family's medical bills. During the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, she donated $50,000 to her own campaign.[173][174] In 2019, she completed payment of her back taxes to the IRS in addition to other outstanding credit card and student loan debt reported during the gubernatorial campaign.[175]

Electoral history

Democratic primary results, 2018[176]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stacey Abrams 424,305 76.44
Democratic Stacey Evans 130,784 23.56
Total votes 555,089 100.0
2018 Georgia gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Brian Kemp 1,978,408 50.2%
Democratic Stacey Abrams 1,923,685 48.8%
Libertarian Ted Metz 37,235 1.0%
Democratic primary results, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stacey Abrams 726,113 100%
2022 Georgia gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Brian Kemp 2,111,572 53.4%
Democratic Stacey Abrams 1,813,673 45.9%
Libertarian Shane Hazel 28,163 0.7%

Books

  • Abrams, Stacey (April 24, 2018). Minority Leader: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1250191298.
  • Abrams, Stacey (June 9, 2020). Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1250257703.
  • Abrams, Stacey (May 11, 2021). While Justice Sleeps. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-54657-7.
  • Abrams, Stacey (December 28, 2021). Stacey's Extraordinary Words. New York: Balzer + Bray. ISBN 978-0-063-20947-3.

Romance novels (as Selena Montgomery):[177]

  • Montgomery, Selena (April 24, 2001). Rules Of Engagement. Harlequin Kimani Arabesque. ISBN 978-1583142240.
  • Montgomery, Selena (December 25, 2001). The Art of Desire. Harlequin Kimani Arabesque. ISBN 978-1583142646.
  • Montgomery, Selena (October 25, 2002). Power of Persuasion. Harlequin Kimani Arabesque. ISBN 978-1583142653.
  • Montgomery, Selena (June 14, 2004). Never Tell. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0312993061.
  • Montgomery, Selena (April 25, 2006). Hidden Sins. HarperTorch. ISBN 978-0060798499.
  • Montgomery, Selena (December 26, 2006). Secrets and Lies. Avon. ISBN 978-0060798512.
  • Montgomery, Selena (June 24, 2008). Reckless. Avon. ISBN 978-0061376030.
  • Montgomery, Selena (March 31, 2009). Deception. Avon. ISBN 978-0061376054.

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Further reading

  • Jones, Martha S. (2020). Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. New York: Basic Books.

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Georgia House of Representatives
Preceded by
JoAnn McClinton
 Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
from the 84th district
2007–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
from the 89th district
2013–2017 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives
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stacey, abrams, stacey, yvonne, abrams, born, december, 1973, american, politician, lawyer, voting, rights, activist, author, served, georgia, house, representatives, from, 2007, 2017, serving, minority, leader, from, 2011, 2017, member, democratic, party, abr. Stacey Yvonne Abrams ˈ eɪ b r e m z 1 born December 9 1973 is an American politician lawyer voting rights activist and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017 2 A member of the Democratic Party Abrams founded Fair Fight Action an organization to address voter suppression in 2018 3 Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia including in the 2020 presidential election when Joe Biden narrowly won the state and in Georgia s 2020 21 regularly scheduled and special U S Senate elections which gave Democrats control of the Senate 4 5 6 Stacey AbramsAbrams in 2021Minority Leader of the Georgia House of RepresentativesIn office January 10 2011 July 1 2017Preceded byDuBose PorterSucceeded byBob TrammellMember of the Georgia House of RepresentativesIn office January 8 2007 August 25 2017Preceded byJoAnn McClintonSucceeded byBee NguyenConstituency84th district 2007 2013 89th district 2013 2017 Personal detailsBornStacey Yvonne Abrams 1973 12 09 December 9 1973 age 50 Madison Wisconsin U S Political partyDemocraticRelativesLeslie Abrams Gardner sister Residence s Atlanta Georgia U S EducationSpelman College BA University of Texas Austin MPA Yale University JD WebsiteOfficial websiteAbrams was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election becoming the first African American female major party gubernatorial nominee in the United States 7 She narrowly lost the election to Republican candidate Brian Kemp but refused to concede accusing Kemp of engaging in voter suppression as Georgia Secretary of State 8 9 News outlets and political science experts have been unable to determine whether voter suppression affected its result 10 11 In February 2019 Abrams became the first African American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election and lost again to Kemp this time by a much larger margin she conceded on the night of the election 12 Abrams is an author of both fiction and nonfiction Her nonfiction books Our Time Is Now and Lead from the Outside were New York Times best sellers Abrams wrote eight fiction books under the pen name Selena Montgomery before 2021 While Justice Sleeps was released on May 11 2021 under her real name Abrams also wrote a children s book Stacey s Extraordinary Words released in December 2021 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Legal and business career 2 1 Nourish and Now 2 2 Rewiring America 3 Political career 3 1 Georgia General Assembly 3 2 2018 gubernatorial campaign 3 3 Role in federal politics 3 4 2022 gubernatorial campaign 4 Political positions 4 1 Criminal justice reform 4 2 Education 4 3 Health care 4 4 Israeli Palestinian conflict 5 Writing career 6 Honors and awards 7 Other work 8 Personal life 9 Electoral history 10 Books 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksEarly life and educationThe second of six siblings Abrams was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison Wisconsin and raised in Gulfport Mississippi where her father was employed in a shipyard and her mother was a librarian 13 14 15 In 1989 the family moved to Atlanta Georgia where her parents pursued graduate divinity degrees at Emory University 16 17 They became Methodist ministers and later returned to Mississippi with their three youngest children while Abrams and two other siblings remained in Atlanta 16 18 19 She attended Avondale High School graduating as valedictorian in 1991 20 In 1990 she was selected for the Telluride Association Summer Program 21 At 17 while still in high school she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign and then as a speechwriter based on the improvements she made to a campaign speech 22 In 1995 Abrams earned a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies political science economics and sociology from Spelman College magna cum laude 2 While in college she worked in the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson 22 She later interned at the U S Environmental Protection Agency 22 As a freshman in 1992 Abrams took part in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol during which she joined in burning the Georgia state flag which at the time incorporated the Confederate battle flag It had been added to the state flag in 1956 as an anti civil rights movement action 23 24 25 As a Harry S Truman Scholar Abrams studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austin s LBJ School of Public Affairs where she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998 Afterward she earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School 2 Legal and business careerAfter graduating from law school Abrams worked as a tax attorney at the Sutherland Asbill amp Brennan law firm in Atlanta with a focus on tax exempt organizations health care and public finance 2 In 2010 while a member of the Georgia General Assembly Abrams co founded and served as the senior vice president of NOW Corp formerly NOWaccount Network Corporation a financial services firm 26 27 Abrams is CEO of Sage Works a legal consulting firm that has represented clients including the Atlanta Dream of the Women s National Basketball Association 28 Nourish and Now Abrams co founded Nourish Inc in 2010 29 Originally conceived as a beverage company with a focus on infants and toddlers 30 it was later rebranded as Now and pivoted its business model to an invoicing solution for small businesses Now raised a 9 5 million Series A in 2021 29 Rewiring America In mid March 2023 community electrification advocacy nonprofit group Rewiring America announced it had hired Abrams as senior counsel 31 32 Political careerIn 2002 at age 29 Abrams was appointed a deputy city attorney for the City of Atlanta 2 33 Georgia General Assembly In 2006 Abrams ran for the 84th District for the Georgia House of Representatives following JoAnn McClinton s announcement that she would not seek reelection Abrams ran in the Democratic Party primary election against former state legislator George Maddox and political operative Dexter Porter She outraised her two opponents and won the primary election with 51 of the vote avoiding a runoff election 34 nbsp Abrams in 2012Abrams represented House District 84 beginning in the 2007 session 35 and beginning in the 2013 session following reapportionment District 89 Both districts covered portions of the City of Atlanta and unincorporated DeKalb County 36 covering the communities of Candler Park Cedar Grove Columbia Druid Hills Edgewood Highland Park Kelley Lake Kirkwood Lake Claire South DeKalb Toney Valley and Tilson 37 38 She served on the Appropriations Ethics Judiciary Non Civil Rules and Ways amp Means committees 39 In November 2010 the Democratic caucus elected Abrams to succeed DuBose Porter as minority leader over Virgil Fludd 40 Abrams s first major action as minority leader was to cooperate with Republican governor Nathan Deal s administration to reform the HOPE Scholarship program She co sponsored the 2011 legislation that preserved the HOPE program by decreasing the scholarship amount paid to Georgia students and funded a 1 low interest loan program for students 41 According to Time magazine Abrams can credibly boast of having single handedly stopped the largest tax increase in Georgia history 42 In 2011 Abrams argued that a Republican proposal to cut income taxes while increasing a tax on cable service would lead to a net increase in taxes paid by most people 42 She performed an analysis of the bill that showed that 82 of Georgians would see net tax increases and left a copy of the analysis on the desk of every House legislator 42 The bill subsequently failed 42 nbsp Abrams with John Lewis in 2017Abrams also worked with Deal on criminal justice reforms that reduced prison costs without increasing crime 42 and with Republicans on the state s biggest ever public transportation funding package 42 On August 25 2017 Abrams resigned from the General Assembly to focus on her gubernatorial campaign 43 2018 gubernatorial campaign Main article 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election nbsp nbsp Stacey Abrams campaigns in 2018 for Governor of Georgia nbsp Wikinews has related news Stacey Abrams becomes first black woman to gain major U S party nomination for governor of Georgia Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 44 In the Democratic primary she ran against Stacey Evans another member of the Georgia House of Representatives 44 in what some called the battle of the Staceys Abrams was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Our Revolution 45 46 On May 22 she won the Democratic nomination making her the first Black woman in the U S to be a major party s nominee for governor 7 After winning the primary Abrams secured a number of high profile endorsements including one from former president Barack Obama 47 48 Almost a week before election day the Republican nominee Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp canceled a debate scheduled seven weeks earlier to attend a Trump rally Kemp blamed Abrams for the cancellation saying she was unwilling to reschedule it Abrams s campaign manager responded We refuse to callously take Georgians for granted and cancel on them Just because Brian Kemp breaks his promises doesn t mean anyone else should 49 Two days before the election Kemp s office announced that it was investigating the Georgia Democratic Party for unspecified possible cybercrimes the Georgia Democratic Party stated that Kemp s scurrilous claims are 100 percent false and described them as a political stunt 50 A 2020 investigation by the Georgia attorney general s office concluded that there was no evidence of computer crimes 51 Later that year it was revealed that the alleged cybercrime against Kemp s office was in fact a planned security test that one of Kemp s staff members had signed off on three months prior 52 As Georgia s secretary of state Kemp was in charge of elections and voter registration during the election Kemp was accused of voter suppression during the election between him and Abrams 53 54 55 Emory University professor Carol Anderson has criticized Kemp as an enemy of democracy and an expert in voter suppression for his actions as secretary of state 56 Political scientists Michael Bernhard and Daniel O Neill described Kemp s actions in the 2018 gubernatorial election as the worst case of voter suppression in that election year 57 Election law expert Richard L Hasen called Kemp perhaps the most incompetent state chief elections officer in the 2018 elections pointing to a number of actions that jeopardized Georgia s election security and made it harder for eligible voters to vote 58 Hasen writes that it was hard to tell which of Kemp s actions were due to incompetence and which were attempted suppression 58 Between 2012 and 2018 Kemp s office canceled over 1 4 million voter registrations with nearly 700 000 cancellations in 2017 alone 59 On a single night in July 2017 half a million voters had their registrations canceled According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution election law experts said that this may represent the largest mass disenfranchisement in US history 60 Kemp oversaw the removals as secretary of state and did so eight months after he declared his candidacy for governor 61 An investigative journalism group run by Greg Palast found that of the approximately 534 000 Georgians whose voter registrations were purged between 2016 and 2017 more than 334 000 still lived where they were registered 62 The voters were given no notice that they had been purged 63 Palast sued Kemp claiming over 300 000 voters were purged illegally 64 Kemp s office denied any wrongdoing saying that by regularly updating our rolls we prevent fraud and ensure that all votes are cast by eligible Georgia voters 65 nbsp Abrams in 2018By early October 2018 more than 53 000 voter registration applications had been put on hold by Kemp s office with more than 75 belonging to minorities 66 59 The voters were eligible to re register if they still lived in Georgia 67 59 61 62 In a ruling against Kemp district judge Amy Totenberg found that Kemp s office had violated the Help America Vote Act and said an attempt by Kemp s office to expedite the certification of results appears to suggest the secretary s foregoing of its responsibility to confirm the accuracy of the results prior to final certification including the assessment of whether serious provisional balloting count issues have been consistently and properly handled 68 69 On November 6 2018 Abrams lost the election by 54 723 votes 70 On November 16 2018 Abrams announced that she was ending her campaign She emphasized that her statement was not a concession because concession means to acknowledge an action is right true or proper but acknowledged that she could not close the gap with Kemp to force a runoff 71 In her campaign ending speech Abrams announced the creation of Fair Fight Action a voting rights nonprofit organization that sued the secretary of state and state election board in federal court for voter suppression 72 Fair Fight s lawsuit was initiated in December 2018 according to Politico it started as a sprawling case that included allegations of unreasonably long lines and wait times caused by moving and closing polling places the impact of voter ID rules on people of color voters with non Anglo Saxon names and newly naturalized citizens improper maintenance of Georgia s voter rolls inadequate training of poll workers and even the integrity of voting machines 73 Six months after the lawsuit began the Georgia legislature passed a law addressing some of its claims with measures including the implementation of new voting machines with more advanced technology 74 Fair Fight dropped the claims about voting machines in December 2020 around the time that Donald Trump made baseless claims about voting machine problems in Georgia affecting the 2020 presidential election 73 In February 2021 a federal judge ruled that Fair Fight s claims about voting machines voter list security and polling place issues were resolved by changes in Georgia s election law or invalidated due to lack of standing to sue 74 75 In April 2021 a judge allowed some claims in the legal challenge to proceed while rejecting others 74 In October 2022 a federal judge ruled against Fair Fight on the remaining claims finding that Georgia s voting regulations did not violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act 76 77 78 According to the judge the case resulted in wins and losses for all parties over the course of the litigation and culminated in what is believed to have been the longest voting rights bench trial in the history of the Northern District of Georgia 73 79 80 Over the course of the lawsuit Fair Fight raised 61 million and paid millions to Allegra Lawrence Hardy Abrams s campaign chair 73 Since losing the election Abrams has repeatedly said that the election was not fairly conducted 9 and has declined to call Kemp the legitimate governor of Georgia 81 Abrams has since said that she won the election and that the election was stolen from the voters of Georgia claims that election law expert Richard L Hasen said were unproven though he argued that it s clear that Kemp did everything in his power to put in place restrictive voting policies that would help his candidacy and hurt his opponent all while overseeing his own election 82 Abrams argued that Kemp who oversaw the election in his role as secretary of state had a conflict of interest and suppressed turnout by purging nearly 670 000 voter registrations in 2017 and that about 53 000 voter registrations were pending a month before the election 9 83 She has said I have no empirical evidence that I would have achieved a higher number of votes However I have sufficient and I think legally sufficient doubt about the process to say that it was not a fair election 9 On November 9 2018 the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that its investigation of the 2018 statewide elections in Georgia had found no evidence of systematic malfeasance or of enough tainted votes to force a runoff election 84 A USA Today fact check noted that the actions Kemp s office took during the election can be explained as routine under state and federal law political scientist Charles S Bullock III said there is not much empirical evidence supporting the assertion that Kemp either suppressed the vote or stole the election from Abrams 85 According to Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler Abrams has variously claimed that she won the election that the election was rigged that it was stolen that it was not free and fair and that Kemp had cheated Kessler said that Abrams played up claims the election was stolen until such tactics became untenable for anyone who claims to be an advocate for American democratic norms and values 86 Role in federal politics nbsp Stacey Abrams and Nancy Pelosi in January 2019On January 29 2019 Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer D NY announced that Abrams would deliver the response to the State of the Union address on February 5 87 She was the first African American woman to give the rebuttal to the address as well as the first and only non office holding person to do so since the State of the Union responses began in 1966 88 Despite being heavily recruited by Schumer the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to challenge incumbent senator David Perdue on April 30 2019 Abrams announced that she would not run for the U S Senate in 2020 89 After Senator Johnny Isakson announced his resignation due to poor health Abrams declined to run in that election as well citing a need to focus on ending voter suppression On August 17 2019 Abrams announced the founding of Fair Fight 2020 90 an organization to assist Democrats financially and technically to build voter protection teams in 20 states 91 Abrams is Fair Fight Action 2020 s chair 92 Billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed 5 million shortly after announcing his run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination 93 94 On ABC s The View Abrams defended Bloomberg s spending saying Every person is allowed to run and should run the race that they think they should run and Mike Bloomberg has chosen to use his finances Other people are using their dog their charisma their whatever 95 Abrams declined to endorse Bloomberg personally 96 During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries Abrams actively promoted herself for consideration as former vice president Joe Biden s running mate 97 Kamala Harris was officially announced as Biden s running mate on August 11 2020 98 Abrams was selected as one of 17 speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention 99 After Biden won the 2020 U S presidential election both The New York Times and The Washington Post credited Abrams with a large boost in Democratic votes in Georgia and an estimated 800 000 new voter registrations 6 100 As part of that election she served as an elector for the state of Georgia 101 2022 gubernatorial campaign Main article 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election On December 1 2021 Abrams announced she would run again for governor of Georgia 102 She ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on May 24 2022 and faced Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the November 8 general election 103 Abrams and Kemp had their first of two scheduled debates on October 17 In the debate Abrams emphasized her support for gun control and legal access to abortion while Kemp emphasized Georgia s economy under his governorship and his anti crime proposals 104 When asked whether she would accept the results of the election Abrams declined to directly respond 105 In the final debate before the election both candidates agreed to accept the results 106 Abrams lost the November 8 2022 election to Kemp she conceded that night 12 Political positionsAbrams supports abortion rights advocates for expanded gun control and opposes proposals for stricter voter ID laws She has argued that some implementations of voter ID laws disenfranchise minorities and the poor 107 108 but does not oppose voter ID laws in principle and supports voters having to verify their identities 109 110 Abrams pledged to oppose legislation similar to the religious liberty bill that Governor Deal vetoed in 2016 111 112 Criminal justice reform Abrams supports criminal justice reform in the form of no cash bail for poor defendants abolishing the death penalty and decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana 107 113 She also supports community policing to keep communities safe as part of criminal justice reform 114 Education Abrams would like to increase spending on public education 42 She opposes private school vouchers instead advocating improvements to the public education system She supports smaller class sizes more school counselors protected pensions better pay for teachers and expanded early childhood education 115 Health care In her campaign for governor Abrams said her top priority was Medicaid expansion 42 116 She cited research showing that Medicaid expansion improved health care access for low income residents and made hospitals in rural locations financially viable 116 She also created a plan to address Georgia s high maternal mortality rate 117 Israeli Palestinian conflict Abrams is a strong supporter of Israel and rejects the demonization and delegitimization of Israel represented by the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign which she has called anti Semitic 118 119 But she voted against Georgia s anti BDS legislation that punishes companies that choose to boycott Israel or Israeli occupied territories 120 Abrams wrote Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history particularly for African Americans As the Anti Defamation League notes the origin of BDS is based in the anti apartheid movement 118 Writing careerOutside of politics Abrams has found success as a fiction writer Until 2021 she published her works under the pen name Selena Montgomery She claims to have sold more than 100 000 copies of her novels 39 She wrote her first novel during her third year at Yale Law School and published her most recent book in 2009 121 Her legal thriller While Justice Sleeps was published under her own name in May 2021 122 That novel is being produced as a television series by Working Title Films a subsidiary of Universal Pictures 123 124 Her writing career and her political career connect through the fundraising event that she inspired Romancing the Runoff where romance authors raised funds for voting rights in Georgia 125 Two of her nonfiction works Our Time is Now and Lead from the Outside were New York Times Best Sellers 126 Abrams has published articles on public policy taxation and nonprofit organizations 127 She is the author of Minority Leader How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change published by Henry Holt amp Co in April 2018 128 and Our Time Is Now Power Purpose and the Fight for a Fair America published by Henry Holt amp Co in June 2020 129 Honors and awardsIn 2012 Abrams received the John F Kennedy New Frontier Award from the Kennedy Library and Harvard University s Institute of Politics which honors an elected official under 40 whose work demonstrates the impact of elective public service as a way to address public challenges 130 In 2014 Governing Magazine named her a Public Official of the Year an award that recognizes state and local official for outstanding accomplishments 131 Abrams was recognized as one of 12 Rising Legislators to Watch by the same publication in 2012 132 and one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend for 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 and 2017 133 EMILY s List recognized Abrams as the inaugural recipient of the Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award in 2014 134 She was selected as an Aspen Rodel Fellow 135 and a Hunt Kean Fellow 136 In 2014 Abrams was named 11th most influential African American aged 25 to 45 by The Root rising to first place in 2019 137 138 Abrams was named Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Public Servant of the Year by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Public Service by the Latin American Association Champion for Georgia Cities by the Georgia Municipal Association and Legislator of the Year by the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce 139 Abrams received the Georgia Legislative Service Award from the Association County Commissioners Georgia the Democratic Legislator of the Year from the Young Democrats of Georgia and Red Clay Democrats and an Environmental Leader Award from the Georgia Conservation Voters 139 She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations 140 a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly 141 an American Marshall Memorial Fellow 141 a Salzburg Seminar Freeman Fellow on U S East Asian Relations 142 and a Yukos Fellow for U S Russian Relations 142 Abrams received the Stevens Award for Outstanding Legal Contributions and the Elmer Staats Award for Public Service both national honors presented by the Harry S Truman Foundation 143 144 She was also a 1994 Harry S Truman Scholar 145 In 2001 Ebony magazine named Abrams one of 30 Leaders of the Future 146 In 2004 she was named to Georgia Trend s 40 Under 40 list 147 and the Atlanta Business Chronicle named Abrams to its Top 50 Under 40 list In 2006 she was named a Georgia Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine and by Law amp Politics Magazine 148 Abrams received a single vote from Kathleen Rice in the 2019 election for Speaker of the U S House 149 In 2019 Abrams received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs where she obtained her Master s of Public Affairs in 1998 The award is the highest honor bestowed upon alumni of the school with recipients selected by their fellow alumni The award reflects her remarkable leadership on behalf of her constituents as well as citizens all over this country according to Dean Angela Evans 150 For her nonviolent campaign to get out the vote Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize 151 In 2021 she was included in the Time 100 Time s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world 152 Abrams was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice Over Performance in 2021 for her work on an election themed special episode of Black ish 153 She lost at the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to Maya Rudolph of Big Mouth 154 Other work nbsp Abrams with Terri Sewell and Doug Jones at the 55th Anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma Alabama in 2020Abrams has served on the boards of directors for Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee the Center for American Progress 155 Atlanta Metropolitan State College Foundation Gateway Center for the Homeless and the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education and on the advisory boards for Literacy Action and Health Students Taking Action Together HSTAT She also serves on the Board of Visitors for Agnes Scott College and the University of Georgia 156 as well as on the board of advisors for Let America Vote a voting rights organization founded by former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander 157 Abrams has completed seven international fellowships and traveled to more than a dozen foreign countries for policy work 158 159 She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations 160 and spoke at CFR s Conference on Diversity in International Affairs in 2019 161 She has also spoken at London s Chatham House 162 the National Security Action Forum 163 and a conference hosted by the Yale Kerry Initiative and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs 164 165 In 2019 Abrams contributed an essay to Foreign Affairs magazine on how identity politics strengthens liberal democracy 166 167 Abrams was featured in All In The Fight For Democracy a documentary about voter suppression in the United States In it she talks about her family s voting struggles in Mississippi and voter suppression during her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign 168 Abrams appeared as an actor in Coming Home the season 4 finale of Star Trek Discovery as the President of United Earth 169 Personal lifeAbrams is the second of six children born to Reverend Carolyn and Reverend Robert Abrams originally of Mississippi 18 Her siblings include Andrea Abrams U S district judge Leslie Abrams Gardner Richard Abrams Walter Abrams and Jeanine Abrams McLean 170 171 In April 2018 Abrams wrote an op ed for Fortune revealing that she owed 54 000 in federal back taxes and held 174 000 in credit card and student loan debt 172 She was repaying the Internal Revenue Service IRS incrementally on a payment plan after deferring her 2015 and 2016 taxes which she stated was necessary to help with her family s medical bills During the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election she donated 50 000 to her own campaign 173 174 In 2019 she completed payment of her back taxes to the IRS in addition to other outstanding credit card and student loan debt reported during the gubernatorial campaign 175 Electoral historyDemocratic primary results 2018 176 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Stacey Abrams 424 305 76 44Democratic Stacey Evans 130 784 23 56Total votes 555 089 100 02018 Georgia gubernatorial election Party Candidate Votes Republican Brian Kemp 1 978 408 50 2 Democratic Stacey Abrams 1 923 685 48 8 Libertarian Ted Metz 37 235 1 0 Democratic primary results 2022 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Stacey Abrams 726 113 100 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election Party Candidate Votes Republican Brian Kemp 2 111 572 53 4 Democratic Stacey Abrams 1 813 673 45 9 Libertarian Shane Hazel 28 163 0 7 BooksAbrams Stacey April 24 2018 Minority Leader How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change New York Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1250191298 Abrams Stacey June 9 2020 Our Time Is Now Power Purpose and the Fight for a Fair America New York Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1250257703 Abrams Stacey May 11 2021 While Justice Sleeps New York Doubleday ISBN 978 0 385 54657 7 Abrams Stacey December 28 2021 Stacey s Extraordinary Words New York Balzer Bray ISBN 978 0 063 20947 3 Romance novels as Selena Montgomery 177 Montgomery Selena April 24 2001 Rules Of Engagement Harlequin Kimani Arabesque ISBN 978 1583142240 Montgomery Selena December 25 2001 The Art of Desire Harlequin Kimani Arabesque ISBN 978 1583142646 Montgomery Selena October 25 2002 Power of Persuasion Harlequin Kimani Arabesque ISBN 978 1583142653 Montgomery Selena June 14 2004 Never Tell St Martin s Paperbacks ISBN 978 0312993061 Montgomery Selena April 25 2006 Hidden Sins HarperTorch ISBN 978 0060798499 Montgomery Selena December 26 2006 Secrets and Lies Avon ISBN 978 0060798512 Montgomery Selena June 24 2008 Reckless Avon ISBN 978 0061376030 Montgomery Selena March 31 2009 Deception Avon ISBN 978 0061376054 References Darrisaw Michelle Vincenty Samantha November 6 2020 Stacey Abrams in Conversation with Janelle Monae video Harper s Bazaar Event occurs at 01 28 Archived from the original on November 13 2021 Retrieved November 13 2021 a b c d e Honorary Degree Recipient Stacey Yvonne Abrams Spelman College March 2017 Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved May 9 2017 Kindelan Katie September 11 2019 Will Stacey Abrams have more of an impact on the 2020 election from the sidelines ABC News Archived from the original on August 20 2020 Retrieved December 3 2019 Rodriguez Sabrina October 10 2022 Stacey Abrams faces challenges in governor s race Is Black voter turnout one of them The Washington Post Archived from the original on October 24 2022 Retrieved November 4 2022 Abrams has been widely credited with working to build the base of voters who helped deliver the White House and Senate majority for Democrats Megia Elena Samuels Alex September 26 2022 How Black Americans Reshaped Politics In Georgia FiveThirtyEight Archived from the original on October 31 2022 Retrieved October 31 2022 T he wheels for a Democratic takeover were already set in motion when the party s gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams pioneered a new playbook focused on Black voters in 2018 something that nearly won her the governorship that year and motivated more Georgians to vote blue in 2020 and 2021 Abrams s close election in 2018 Perry added also might encourage Black Democrats to go out and vote even in a midterm year a b Hakim Danny Saul Stephanie Thrush Glenn November 7 2020 As Biden Inches Ahead in Georgia Stacey Abrams Draws Recognition and Praise The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on May 22 2021 Retrieved January 15 2021 Celebrities activists and voters across Georgia credited Ms Abrams with moving past her loss she came within 55 000 votes of the governor s mansion and building a well funded network of 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