(Jemal Countess / Getty Images for MomsRising) |
By Kathy Spillar | The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) this week announced the election of Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) as DWC’s chair for the 119th Congress, which starts in January. Leger Fernández served as the DWC vice chair in the 118th Congress and will now lead the largest ever DWC, which includes a record-breaking 96 members in the new Congress.
Leger Fernández is a 17th-generation daughter of rural New Mexico. She served on the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, and as a public interest lawyer, she helped secure nearly a billion dollars for Head Start and healthcare clinics in New Mexico and solved jurisdictional issues that contributed to the abuses of Native American women.
Ms. executive editor, Kathy Spillar, sat down with Rep. Leger Fernández, to discuss priorities for the DWC—both to fight back against what will be repeated attacks by the Trump administration on women’s rights and programs benefiting women and their children, as well as strategies for moving forward toward equality.
(Click here to read more) |
