Emerge Trailblazers
Emerge California:
Emerge Kentucky:
London Breed, San Francisco Board of
Supervisors President, first African-American
woman to serve as President of SF Board of
Supervisors in 25 years
Letitia Clark, Tustin City Councilwoman, first
African- American woman elected to the
Tustin City Council in conservative Orange
County
Angela Evans, Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Government Councilor, first African-American
woman to hold her city council seat on the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government,
Kentucky's second largest city
Emerge KY Advisory Board Member Rep.
Sannie Overly, Kentucky's House Democratic
Caucus Chair and the first woman elected to the
state’s House leadership
Lori Droste, Berkeley City Councilor, first
openly-gay woman to serve on the council
Rep. Attica Scott, first African-American to be
elected to the Kentucky state house in nearly
20 years
Mara Elliott, San Diego City Attorney, first
woman of color to be elected San Diego City
Attorney
Emerge Maine:
Emily Murase, San Francisco School Board
President, first Japanese-American to serve on
SF school board, first Japanese-American
woman to be elected in San Francisco
Emerge Colorado:
Rep. Daneya Esgar, first openly-gay legislator to
serve from the Pueblo district in the Colorado
House
Rep. Leslie Herod, Colorado State House,
will be Colorado’s first LGBTQ African-
American legislator
Rochelle Galindo, Greeley City Councilor, first
openly gay woman of color to serve on Greeley
City Council; serving as the lone Democrat
Jordan Sauers, Northglenn City
Councilor, youngest woman elected to office
in the state and one of the first Latinas to
serve on Northglenn City Council
Rep. Sara Gideon, Speaker in the Maine
House, the first woman to serve in Maine
leadership from the Emerge program and
newly nominated Speaker
Emerge Michigan:
Sommer Foster, Canton Township Trustee, will
be the first African American to serve as Trustee
in Canton, MI
Emerge Massachusetts:
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Buncombe County
Commissioner, will be the first openly gay
person to serve as Commissioner in Buncombe
County, North Carolina
Michelle Wu, Boston City Council
President, first Asian-American woman on
Boston’s City Council; first Asian-American and
woman of color to serve as President; first
woman to give birth while serving on the council
Rep. Juana Matias, first Latina Massachusetts
State Representative elected at just 29 years
old