Anna Keilly is an outreach intern for RepresentWomen and a current American University student in the combined BA/MPA program. This semester she will complete  her undergraduate degree in the interdisciplinary study of communications, legal institutions, economics and government (CLEG). Anna’s focused interest in the areas of campaign operations and women in politics began with her Fellowship on Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign and developed through this election cycle when she worked as a Field Organizer on Amy McGrath’s Senate campaign in Lexington, KY. She is excited to work with RepresentWomen to further her outreach and advocacy work for women in politics and to help advance gender parity on all levels of governing.

Anna Evans is a junior at American University studying Data Sciences for Political Science and Piano Performance. She has developed a passion for electoral system reform and looks forward to further researching ranked choice voting and its impact on gender parity in government in the United States and internationally during her time as a research intern at RepresentWomen. In the future, she hopes she can work to help ensure everyone has the equal opportunity to vote or be elected to office regardless of their gender, race, or socioeconomic status.

My name is Angelica and I am one of the Spring 2021 Multimedia Interns for RepresentWomen. As a junior at UMBC, I study Media and Communications as well as English Literature. I am incredibly excited to learn as much as possible while I’m here and to trust in my own creative abilities, and I can’t wait to help topple the patriarchal structures of our government.

My name is Alexis and I am a nonprofit leadership and development intern for RepresentWomen, as well as a second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, majoring in International Peace Development. What brought me to RepresentWomen was being able to join a team that helps serve the underserved and help reform broken systems. I hope to learn how to effectively run a nonprofit and learn about different ways of campaigning that I can take with me to my future career. My future career goal is to open and run orphanages in conflict zones to protect children from trafficking or recruitment. I hope to take with me from this internship leadership, advocacy, and what it means to actively fight against and reform broken systems.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women and former deputy president of South Africa

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By Lexi Long

Sahiba Gafarova

In a March 2020 vote, representatives of the National Assembly elected Sahiba Gafarova to be Azerbaijan’s first woman Speaker of the Assembly. While Azerbaijan was the first Muslim-majority state to grant women the right to vote and stand for election in 1918, the government has struggled to empower women to successfully run and win seats at both the federal and local levels.

The launch of the "Yes on 1" campaign Summer 2019, Photo Source: RepresentWomen

On Tuesday, ranked choice voting (RCV) returned to New York City - putting an end to a 74 year hiatus of the voting system. Following the success of the “Yes on 1” ballot measure in November 2019, ranked choice voting will be used for the first time since 1947 in NYC to fill a Queen’s city council seat that has been vacant since November 2020. In the coming months, ranked choice voting will also be used in at least four local elections and the highly-contested New York City mayoral primary in June.

President Biden's proposed Cabinet would have 24 members. Assuming the newly Democratic Senate confirms all of his nominees, a process that got started last week, it would be the most diverse Cabinet in history and the first to reach gender balance.

Women achieve the highest representation in the history of the Egyptian parliament.  

By Fatma Tawfik