Napoleon Bracy selected for highly competitive Stacey Abrams Fellowship
Alabama State Rep. Napoleon Bracy has been selected to the Stacey Abrams Fellowship. The highly competitive fellowship recently added five states to its fellowship program. This year, the program will include South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Founded by Georgia politician Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight is a voting rights group that has been devoted to expanding knowledge and awareness of issues like voting rights, legislative functionality, and grassroots advocacy. Until now, the group has focused on developing a cohort of elected officials in the state of Georgia. Starting this year, Fair Fight will work with partner organizations on the ground in five additional states to select state legislators to become Senior Fellows. The program will last two months and culminate in a joint graduation ceremony with the Georgia Senior Fellows and keynote speaker Stacey Abrams in December 2021. In a February op-ed in the NYT written by Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo titled “How to Turn Your Red State Blue, Abrams wrote, “The steps toward victory are straightforward: understand your weaknesses, organize with your allies, shore up your political infrastructure and focus on the long game.” She concluded the piece, saying, “Our approach was rooted in the demographic numbers and in the moral clarity provided by an authentic, multiracial, multiethnic, multigenerational and truly statewide coalition.” “People often write off the South as a place where elections and fights for progressive values are unwinnable—but we’re proving that the South is ground zero for the next wave of progressivism in this country. Through the Fair Fight National Fellowship Program, we will continue to support and develop the next generation of strong progressive leaders across the South,” said Fair Fight Political Director André D. Fields. One of Alabama Today’s most influential people of 2021, Bracy was elected to the Alabama State House of Representatives in 2010. Representing Mobile, Alabama, he was elected as Chairman of the Alabama Legislative Black Caucus in 2013. Bracy is the Manager of Diversity, Inclusion, and Affirmative Action for Austal USA, a defense contractor for the US Department of Defense. Bracy posted on Facebook, “I am proud to be selected as a Fair Fight Action Fellow with Stacey Abrams along with other southern legislators fighting for better access to the ballot box! Let’s turn Alabama Blue! We are learning from the best!”
