Class of 1991 |Avondale High School, GA
Stacey Abrams is a politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and an author. She served as the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011-2017 and has been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election. Stacey has authored eleven books, both fiction and nonfiction, and was nominated for an Emmy for her voice-over work in a special episode of Black-ish.
Stacey was hired as the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University in 2023.
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