With warmth and wit, Halla Tómasdóttir shares how she overcame media bias, changed the tone of the political debate and surprised her entire nation when she ran for president of Iceland — inspiring the next generation of leaders along the way. “What we see, we can be,” she says. “It matters that women run.”
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It’s time for women to run for office | Halla Tómasdóttir
March 20, 2017
More from this series:
- The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate | Suzanne Barakat
- A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system | Adam Foss
- How we talk about sexual assault online | Ione Wells
- An artist’s unflinching look at racial violence | Sanford Biggers
- It’s time for women to run for office | Halla Tómasdóttir
- America’s forgotten working class | J.D. Vance
- An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
- Why gun violence can’t be our new normal | Dan Gross