018 Glynda Carr, Co-Founder, Higher Heights

On the first episode of 2018, Mattie talks with with Glynda Carr, an advocate and political strategist who co-founded Higher Heights for America - an organization dedicated to expanding the civic participation of black women. She talks on the show today about the national ripple effect of black women electing Doug Jones, the unique challenges black women have when they decide to run for office and why we could see an unprecedented amount of elected black female leaders in 2018. "Frankly, the 23 million black women in this country are being underrepresented and underserved," Carr says. --- The 23% is brought to you by Governing. Learn more about what makes your community work, and what it can learn from other, at

You can listen to 018 Glynda Carr, Co-Founder, Higher Heights online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

018 Glynda Carr, Co-Founder, Higher Heights is an episode from The 23 Percent by Paul W. Taylor.

This episode is 14:42 long.

This episode was published on Jan 16, 2018.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from The 23 Percent when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.