Deja Foxx was unpacking in her dorm room to start her sophomore year at Columbia University when Meena Harris DM’d her about working on her Aunt Kamala’s presidential campaign. “I just started repacking,” Foxx says, laughing. “I wasn’t going to sit in a classroom and talk about Plato and Aristotle …
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After Election Day, Stacey Abrams briefly considered moving far away from Atlanta. “There was probably a 24-hour period, maybe 48 hours, where I was ready to move to a small island and become a writer full-time,” she says. As the author of eight romance novels, Abrams could have done just …
Read More »The First Time: Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham was discovered in a Nebraska mall at age 12 and started modeling soon after. She later became the first size-16 woman to cover Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue in 2016. The next year, she was the first curvy model to walk the Michael Kors runway at New York Fashion …
Read More »Jahana Hayes on Her Improbable Road to Congress
“I never expected to win,” says Jahana Hayes, the first African-American woman to represent Connecticut in Congress. “I thought it would be a damn good try, and people would get encouraged, and then the next time someone else would do it.” In fact, when the mother of four and 2016 …
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