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When @Daniele4NV entered her first legislative session in 2017, she was one of only a handful of Black women to ever serve.
She said an older White lawmaker early on told her that "he never dreamed that he would see so many women and so many people of color" at the statehouse.pic.twitter.com/SbPDt1BX9W
Diversity was among the central themes that emerged during researchers' interviews with lawmakers, according to @SondraCosgrove, as many of the women lawmakers said the difference in legislation should also be attributed to the growing diversity of the statehouse.
The Nevada statehouse has slightly increased its representation of Black people, Latinx, Asian Americans and LGBTQ+ lawmakers. State Sen. Pat Spearman is a queer Black woman; Benitez-Thompson is Latina.https://bit.ly/3j1E0mq
The sentiment from lawmakers, according to Cosgrove: "If it's a bunch of White women, that's not diversity, and you're not actually bringing every voice to the table."
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