Friday, July 11, 2008
News Youngest state rep honored
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:48 PM
State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan, D-Austell, is the youngest person to ever serve in the Georgia General Assembly. She's also the first African-American to represent majority-white, majority-GOP Cobb County in the state House. And she's now been named one of the nation's leaders when it comes to an important — and often unpopular — cause: standing up for a woman's right to choose.
Rep. Morgan, who's 29 and been in office for six years, is one of five people to receive a national award from D.C.-based reproductive rights group Choice USA. The honorees were announced today.
According to a press release about the award:
Morgan joins a distinguished collection of accomplished leaders and emerging activists working to secure and enhance reproductive health, reproductive justice, reproductive choice and reproductive rights in the U.S. and abroad.
The group called Morgan "a fiery advocate for the rights of the underserved." We'll second that.
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