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Christine Jahnke was a speech coach who helped women in politics hone their communications skills and increase their electability.With a background in broadcast journalism, Jahnke discovered that she preferred working behind the scenes to appearing on camera. She made a career out of instilling confidence and public speaking skill to women running for political office – or women who were otherwise thrust into the political spotlight, like Michelle Obama.

Ruth Ann Minner was the first, and to date only, woman elected governor of Delaware, serving from 2001 to 2009.Minner was widowed at 32 and raised her children as a single mother, earning her GED and attending college while working two jobs. A Democrat, she was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives in 1975 and served there until her elected to the Delaware Senate in 1983.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the “underdog” and the “underprivileged,” code for the people who made each of us.By then, I was in awe of her.For years now, in addition to serving as faculty at Kent State University and being a nationally syndicated columnist, Schultz has been a steadying force, demanding decency and justice. In hundreds of thousands of people’s social media feeds# she daily manages a rarity—civil discourse online—even as our nation weathers political chaos.

Glamour. “None of this is new.”Maxwell is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and the cohost of the SiriusXM radio show, Signal Boost, so it is in a sense her job to assess in which direction the political and social winds are blowing.

Emma Sanders was a Mississippi civil rights and voting rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated delegations at the Democratic National Convention.Sanders became involved in civil rights activism in the early 1960s, when her son was participating in a campaign to end segregation in restaurants and churches. A concerned parent, she wanted to make sure her son was safe, and then she found inspiration to join the fight.

Glamour about activism, politics, fair elections, and the 2020 presidential race.Over the past few weeks in particular, there’s been a debate over how best to effect change, whether that’s through political leadership, activism, organizing, or something else. Has there ever been a point in your career where you wondered, “Did I pick the wrong lane? Am I not in the role that I need to be in to make the most change?”No, and that’s because I’ve always been fairly flexible about what I do.

#HillaryRU #Eagleton pic.twitter.com/zIzBLOxwSNRuth Mandel was an institution in her own right. A survivor of the Holocaust, she dedicated her life to improving American democracy – particularly for women.

From Lori Lightfoot in Chicago to London Breed in San Francisco, five mayors look back on the first two months of this crisis—low moments, beacons of hope, unexpected, absurdly popular memes—and plan for an uncertain future.By When Lori Lightfoot was elected mayor in Chicago in April 2019 (becoming the first black woman to serve in the office), she had a sense of what was about to fall on her plate.In that race, she’d run on promises to stamp out corruption, deal with an impending fiscal crisis,

Nanette Burstein is used to pressure. The Oscar-nominated documentarian has devoted her life to telling other people's stories.

The question that had come so close to fading into irrelevance is back: Will I ever see a woman elected president?As became the fifth woman to exit the 2020 presidential race, on March 5 after failing to win a single one of the first primaries, women are coming to terms with the fact that, for the 244th year straight, the person America chooses to lead it in November will be a man.“I don't want to say I expected this, but I'm a black woman, so let's put it this way: I don't actually presume to

I’ve been listening to the new Dixie Chicks song “” on repeat for the past 48 hours. In May, the group will release their first new album in over a decade.

Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer (D-Ia.) had wrapped up votes for the afternoon and was preparing to head home when she started to feel a familiar, sharp pain in her lower back. This was about a month ago and at the end of the week—which meant an intense commute.

Andrea Mitchell has 13 presidential elections and seven administrations, almost all of them at NBC News. Her show Andrea Mitchell Reports airs on MSNBC.