Politics & Law

Stacey Abrams

Born December 9, 1973 · Madison, Wisconsin

The architect of one of the most significant voter registration campaigns in American history — Stacey Abrams helped flip Georgia blue in 2020 by registering 800,000 new voters and fighting voter suppression with data, strategy, and relentless organizing.

Known For

Voter registration architect

Founded

Fair Fight Action

Impact

Helped register 800,000+ Georgia voters

Stacey Yvonne Abrams was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi before her family moved to Atlanta. The daughter of two Methodist pastors, she graduated from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin, and Yale Law School.

Abrams served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 11 years, becoming the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House. In 2018, she became the first Black woman nominated for governor by a major party in the United States.

After a narrow and contested loss in that race, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action to combat voter suppression. Her organization registered over 800,000 new voters in Georgia, fundamentally reshaping the state's electorate. In 2020, Georgia flipped blue in a presidential election for the first time since 1992 and elected two Democratic senators — a transformation widely credited to Abrams' decade-long organizing work.