What The Heck Is EMILY’s List, Anyway? with Stephanie Schriock

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Schriock is an American political strategist and president of EMILY's List, the nation’s largest organization for women in politics. She joins Jonathan to talk the formation of EMILY’s list, the importance of women in politics, the upcoming census, the 2020 election, and more. Stephanie is on Twitter @shriock1. EMILY's List is on Twitter @emilyslist, on Instagram @emilys_list, and at https://www.emilyslist.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:02.6	I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation, sometimes
0:06.8	it's 30, sometimes it's 50 honey we never really know, with a brilliant expert to learn
0:10.9	all about something that makes me curious.
0:13.8	On today's episode I'm joined by the president of Emily's List, Stephanie Shriak, where
0:18.3	we discuss the future of government and Emily's List's mission to elect pro-choice democratic
0:23.2	women.
0:27.7	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:28.7	This is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:30.0	Welcome to the program Stephanie Shriak, the president of Emily's List, which if we were
0:34.8	doing like a log line of Emily's List like the TV show, like Emily's List, da da da da da
0:40.3	da da da, like what would that da da da da da da da da be?
0:43.3	The nation's largest most powerful organization for women in politics.
0:47.8	I love that log line.
0:51.1	So how did Emily's List come to fruition?
0:53.7	Like how did it all get started?
0:55.5	It is a really fabulous story.
0:57.8	So our founder Ellen Malcolm and a bunch of girlfriends in 1985 got together because they
1:05.0	were so angry that one no woman, no democratic woman I should say, had won a seat in the US
1:11.6	Senate in her own right ever, ever, 1985, 1985, 1985.
1:17.7	A woman had never won a Senate seat.
1:20.9	A democratic woman in her own right, which meant there had been a few had served.
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