Op-Eds

This Op-ed, What Angela Alsobrooks’ Primary Win Means for Black Women in Politics, by RepresentWomen's Cynthia Richie Terrell was published in Ms. magazine on May 17, 2024. It covers Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester's campaigns, holding the potential to become the U.S.' fourth and fifth Black women to ever serve in the Senate.

This interview was published on Ms. magazine on March 7, 2024, by RepresentWomen staffers Ashley Thurston, Courtney Lamendola, and Steph Scaglia.

RepresentWomen staffers Ashley Thurston, Courtney Lamendola and Steph Scaglia conducted an interview with Mary Robinson, Ireland’s First-Ever Woman President in March of 2024. Read the article featured in Ms. magazine for a summary of the conversation.

This article by Cynthia Richie Terrell provided information on RepresentWomen's 2024 Democracy Solutions Summit. It was published on Ms. magazine on March 4, 2024.

This op-ed by Victoria Pelletier was published in Ms. magazine on February 27, 2024. It covers how the current political system not only enhances barriers that stop Black women from accessing public office, but also hinders our ability to craft equitable policies once elected.

This op-ed by Cynthia Richie Terrell and Rob Richie, Making the New Zealand Case for Ranked-Choice Voting in the U.S., covers how RCV improves a full range of elections, wins legislatively on the ballot, and is popular with voters. It was published in Ms. magazine on February 22, 2024.

Written by Cynthia Richie Terrell, this article was published in The Washington Post on January 16, 2024, in memory of Sandra Day O’Connor.

The Reykjavík Global Forum convenes women leaders to share solutions on how to further advance society towards gender equity and grow the number of women in leadership positions. Written by Cynthia Richie Terrell, this article was published in Ms. magazine on December 22, 2023.

Written by Alissa Bombardier Shaw, this article was published in The Fulcrum on December 12, 2023.

Written by Cynthia Richie Terrell and Rob Richie, this article was published in The Fulcrum on December 6, 2023.

Written by Steph Scaglia and Alissa Bombardier Shaw, this article was published on LAProgressive on November 22,2023.

Research shows that proportional ranked choice voting is the best method for removing barriers to women's representation. Written by Steph Scaglia and Alissa Bombardier Shaw, this article was published on Stubstack on November 22, 2023.

Written by Alissa Bombardier Shaw and Steph Scaglia, this article was published in Ms. magazine on November 20, 2023.

The “Golden Years” for Women’s Representation: proportional representation and gender quotas are the two most important reforms to enable women's representation. Written by Nora Weiss and Alissa Bombardier Shaw, this article was published on Substack on October 27, 2023.

Written by Cynthia Richie Terrell, this article was published in Ms. magazine on October 19th,2023.

Written by Steph Scaglia, this article was published on The Fulcrum website on October 10, 2023.

Written by Cynthia Richie Terrell, this article was published in Ms. magazine on August 11, 2023, after the gender parity index was launched.

New York made history in 2021 when Ranked Choice Voting contributed to electing a women of color majority on the city council. What is the policy impact, two years later? Written by Steph Scaglia, this article was published on Substack on August 2, 2023.