What a woman!
Bet she runs for the senate.
Early life and education
Abrams, one of six siblings, was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi.[2] The family moved to Atlanta, where her parents pursued graduate school and later became Methodist ministers.[3][4] She attended Avondale High School, was selected for a Telluride Association Summer Program.[5] While in high school, she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign and was later hired as a speechwriter at age 17 based on the edits she made while typing.[5]
In 1995, Abrams earned her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (Political Science, Economics and Sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude.[1] While in college, Abrams worked in the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson.[5] She later interned at the Environmental Protection Agency.[5] As a freshman, she took part in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992 in which she joined in the burning of the state flag, which at the time incorporated the Confederate battle flag, which had been added to the state flag in 1956 as an anti-civil rights movement gesture.[6][7]
As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, Abrams studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs and earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998. In 1999, she earned a law degree from Yale Law School.[1]
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