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Valerie Foushee
Valerie P. Foushee


Valerie P. Foushee assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2023, representing North Carolina's 4th Congressional District. Foushee was born and raised in Orange County, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Afro and African-American studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her career experience includes working as an administrator with the Chapel Hill Police Department and in administrative positions with insurance and research companies. She also served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board, and then was the […]
Lois Frankel
Lois Frankel


Lois Frankel has served as a U.S. representative for Florida since 2013. She served the 22nd District from 2013-2017, the 21st District from 2017-2023, and currently serves the 22nd District again. Frankel was born in New York, New York, on May 16, 1948. She received a B.A. from Boston University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Previously she served 14 years in the Florida state legislature, and became the first woman to serve as Democratic minority leader. She was then elected mayor of West Palm Beach in 2003 and […]
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard


Tulsi Gabbard served as the representative for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District from 2013-2021, the first American Samoan Congresswoman and first practicing Hindu member of Congress. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, the first female combat veteran to run for U.S. president. She suspended her presidential campaign on March 19, 2020. Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, American Samoa. She received a B.S.B.A. in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University in 2009. Her father, Mike Gabbard, has […]
Sara Gideon
Sara Gideon


Sara Gideon has served in the Maine House of Representatives since 2012. She was the 2020 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, losing to incumbent Susan Collins. Gideon was born on December 4, 1971, and raised in Rhode Island. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University in 1994. Gideon began her political career as an intern for U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell. After moving to Maine in 2004, she served on the Freeport Town Council. She was elected to the Maine House in 2012. In […]
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords


Gabrielle Giffords assumed office in January 2007, representing Arizona's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives until January 2012. Giffords is the third woman elected from Arizona to serve in the United States Congress. Giffords was born June 8, 1970, in Tucson, Arizona. In 1993, she completed her B.A. in sociology and Latin American history at Scripps College in California. From 1993 to 1994, she studied in Chihuahua, Mexico, as a Fulbright Scholar. After returning to the United States, Gifford studied at Cornell University, completing her master's degree […]
Christina Giunchigliani
Christina Giunchigliani


Christina Giunchigliani was a Democratic candidate for governor of Nevada in 2018. She served as Clark County commissioner in Nevada from 2007 to 2019. Giunchigliani was born in Lucca, Italy, on November 27, 1954. Her family then moved to Chicago where she grew up. She attended Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in special education. She then earned her Master of Arts in education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Giunchigliani's political career started when she was elected to the Nevada Assembly […]
Jenniffer González-Colón
Jenniffer González-Colón


Jenniffer González-Colón has served as the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, representing the island in the U.S. House of Representatives, since 2017. She is the youngest person and the first woman to be resident commissioner. González-Colón was born in San Juan on August 5, 1976. She received her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico, and her J.D. and L.L.M. from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Her career in elective politics started when she won a special election in the Puerto […]
Jessica González-Rojas
Jessica González-Rojas


Jessica González-Rojas Represents New York State's 34th District in the New York State Assembly. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. González-Rojas earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in public and nonprofit management and public policy from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has also completed a certificate program in management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. From 2002 to 2006, González-Rojas served on the New York State Democratic Committee for […]
Jennifer-Ruth Green
Jennifer-Ruth Green


Jennifer-Ruth Green ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Indiana’s 1st congressional district in 2022, losing in the general election. Green has over twenty years of military service. She graduated from the USAF Academy in 2005, and then began her Air Force career in aviation. While enlisted in the Air Force, she earned a B.S. in Asian area studies from the Air Force Academy, an M.Min. from Golden State Baptist College, and a B.S. in aeronautics from Liberty University. She is currently enrolled in Air War College, studying […]
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley


Nimrata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. Previously, Haley served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, the first non-European American and first female governor of South Carolina and the second Indian American governor to be elected in the United States. Haley was a Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 election, the first woman of color to be a major GOP presidential candidate and the first woman to win a state GOP presidential primary (D.C. and […]