Stacey Abrams, 2021
2022 Georgia gubernatorial candidate, civil and voting rights activist, founder of Fair Fight, and author
48 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
“I need women of color, particularly black women, to understand that our achievements should not be diminished.”
—Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic party and was the nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. This made her the first African-American, female, major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. She lost the election to Brian Kemp who was criticized by voting rights advocates for engaging in voter suppression. In 2018, rather than focusing on her own run for president, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization that works to overcome voter suppression. Her vital efforts have since been widely heralded as the incentive for broad voter turnout among progressives in Georgia winning Joe Biden the state of Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, and Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock senate seats in Georgia's 2020–21 U.S. Senate election and run-off election.