By: Nichole Davari | 2020 Board Member, 2021 Board of Directors Vice President

If you are a womxn, a womxn of color, or a little girl looking at the TV last Saturday night you felt it.

The moment you saw Kamala Harris take the stage as the Vice President-elect, you knew you could too.

Kamala Harris will be the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American to be elected vice president of the United States.

I write to you as a daughter of immigrants myself. This is monumental. Knowing the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father will now rise higher in this country’s leadership than any woman before her changes the way I look at myself, the way I move through my life, the way the clients of TNJFON look at themselves, move through their lives.

I am not here to idolize a politician, to say this is an answer to all of our prayers, but it must be acknowledged, or better yet celebrated, that for womxn and womxn of color, the results of this election may mean more than you realize.