Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Stacey Abrams, voting rights advocate, and former minority leader of George's House of Representatives, where I ask her, how can we shablam on voter suppression?

Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness.

I'm so excited for this, our guest and it's, sometimes I talk about how it's weird to say excited about you know anything in these times

there's so much to keep up with and so much to um yeah there's so much to keep up with and be mad about sometimes but I'm so excited that our guest is here so welcome to getting curious

Stacy Abrams how are you well thank you so much, Jonathan, for having me.

Well, thank you so much for taking your time to be here.

So I guess I just want to quickly preface who you are,

if anyone is listening to this, if they have for some reason been living under a rock like no shame but you know you know whatever so you were famously the first black woman to run as a majority party gubernatorial

nominee in the US, which I didn't realize when you ran for governor in 2018 of Georgia, that you are the first black woman to run as a

major gubernatorial party nominee so congratulations on that feat but basically due to a lot of systematic voter suppression,

Brian Kemp, the opponent who you were running against, won in that election since then you have launched an incredible initiative called

Fair Fight that I cannot wait to talk about but also you were in the Georgia

House of Representatives from 2007 to 17,

which I also just honed in on a lot thinking about

your time there before this interview

because you were in the Georgia House of Representatives in the wave of the Tea Party in 2010 and then you became the House Minority Leader in 2011 and until 2017.

So I just think that's really like very prolific and such experience and that is

for lack of a better word so cool that you did that

So yeah, I'm done talking now, so now, you know, hopefully everyone understands the level of your just incredibleness and basically the question is how are we going to protect our election in 2020.

That's really kind of the central thing that I'm thinking of and that's kind of why I wanted you to come talk to

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