Leslie Herod: “Here’s who I am.”
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of women in politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible people changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog last year and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
This episode of The Brown Girls Guide was produced by Jenny Kaplan, Andi Kristins, and Alli Lindenberg. Original music was composed by Elisheba Ittoop.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. I'm Ashanti Golar, the founder of the Brown Rules Guide and the political director for Emerge America. |
| 0:59.0 | Last episode, we heard from Adi Hardikar, the former Obama White House liaison to the LGBTQ and AAPI communities. |
| 1:09.0 | We talked about her journey from intern to White House staffer and |
| 1:13.2 | embracing all of your identities. If you missed it, check it out. Today, we continue to celebrate |
| 1:20.0 | Pride Month and our LGBTQ brown girls by speaking with the first openly black LGBT woman |
| 1:26.5 | elected in Colorado, state representative, |
| 1:29.7 | Leslie Herod. |
| 1:30.9 | From sponsoring legislation around child savings accounts to her signature work on criminal justice reform, |
| 1:38.6 | Rep Herod also uses her voice to encourage more LGBTQ individuals to enter politics and, of course, run for office. |
| 1:46.7 | I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:58.9 | Representative, we are so excited to have you with us today. How are you doing? I am doing well. How are you? |
| 2:05.4 | Doing great. So we are so excited to talk to you today because there's just so much I want to ask you. |
| 2:12.8 | But first, I really want to talk about how you got involved in politics because you did it during your college years. |
| 2:20.9 | So what made you say, okay, now is the time for me to take my love of politics up a notch and to become a co-founder of New Era, Colorado, which was really a groundbreaking organization for getting young people |
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