Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams (full name Stacey Yvonne Abrams; born December 9, 1973) is an American Democratic politician, lawyer, voting rights activist and author.

She was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 and served as its minority leader from 2011 to 2017. In 2018 she founded Fair Fight Action to combat voter suppression. Her organizing is widely credited with lifting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden narrowly carried the state, and in the two 2020–21 U.S. Senate elections, whose results gave Democrats control of the Senate.

In 2018 she became the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, the first African-American woman to be a major party's gubernatorial nominee in the United States, and lost to Republican Brian Kemp by about 1.4 percentage points. In February 2019 she became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. She was again the Democratic nominee for governor in 2022, and this time lost to Kemp by a wider margin.

As a writer, she has published both fiction and nonfiction, and two of her nonfiction books became New York Times best sellers. Before 2021 she wrote eight novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery; since 2021 she has published fiction under her own name, and she also released a children's book that year.