In an op-ed for ELLE.com, she explains why the nation needs more organizers in office.
her Democratic primary race in Missouri, defeating longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay. She’s now set to become the state’s first Black congresswoman. In June, she wrote the following op-ed forI first showed up to a protest in Ferguson the day afterwas murdered by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014. At the time, I was working as a registered nurse managing a local community mental health clinic.
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