'The way Black women vote really determines the outcome of many elections at the state level and at the federal level, and we are not represented equally in political office.'
The next step for her office, she said, will be “informing and educating our voters” further into civic engagement.
“We’ve got to be persistent,” she said. “That’s what our ancestors did. They didn’t just give up because it was hard.
“I felt this was our time to make good on the civil rights era — that they had fought for us and given us so much,” she said. “This was going to be this generation’s time to basically continue to struggle and continue to fight.” That’s why Weber, Chapman and Way have committed their careers to the issue. Specifically, as Black women, they say they do not take their work lightly.
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