In the News
July 4, 2025
Ms. Studios pocast series, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with Carmen Rios interviews Cynthia Richie Terrell on the promise of a truly representative democracy. Read an excerpt below.
“We need to shift who has power in this country,” Cynthia Richie Terrell, founder of RepresentWomen, said during our interview for the podcast. “I don’t want to have any one gender completely in charge of anything, but I do want women to feel safe and secure, and well paid, and proud and in charge of our autonomy in every way, and part of every decision that impacts us and impacts our families. That’s doable, but it’s going to require a lot of shifting of power — shifting of power away from older people, from white people, from men.”
Richie Terrell’s organization is particularly excited about the potential for ranked choice voting to help women tip the scales and win more races. “This year we saw the first decline in two decades of women in the house of representatives,” she said, “and it’s due to all those constraints in our polarized, rigid system. The only way that we’re really going to address that and tackle that is to change the electoral system.”
Read the complete article on Ms. magazine.
