I feel like I’ve spent a lot of my life being one of the few. I see it as my responsibility to bridge two different worlds.
1992 and 2014: Some things change (we now have 20 women in the US Senate) and some things stay the same (Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are awesome)!
Eloise Gomez Reyes, EMILY’s List’s endorsed candidate in the California 31st congressional district, has made an improbable rise from underdog to favorite in the race. She was even profiled in Irin Carmon’s “Women in 2014” series. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-underdog-becomes-the-favorite. She’ll be answering viewer questions on MSNBC today.