When Jennifer Carroll Foy—a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a public defender—decided to run for a seat in the Virginia statehouse, she was months behind her opponent’s fundraising goals. And no one knew she was pregnant with twins.
Twenty-three-year-old Mexican-American Crystal Murillo is running for a seat on town council in her hometown, Aurora, Colorado. Her opponent? The incumbent, a 79-year-old white Republican woman.
