First Change Is Good

SALLY HOLMES

When we first started discussing our annual Changemakers issue back in November, the one thing I knew for certain was that Stacey Abrams needed to be our cover star. This was before her full impact on the 2020 election was clear (before Georgia had been called for Biden-Harris and two months before the state’s historic runoff election), but proof of Abrams’s commitment to fighting for change in her state and in her country was ubiquitous—and unyielding. “There’s nothing permanent about the change that we’re making until people believe it’s a change they should defend and maintain,” Abrams tells writer Ashley C. Ford in our profile, found on page 60. “And so every election, every fight, you’ve got to remind people that they have the capacity to win, and you have…

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Marie Claire (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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