Emerge Kentucky in the News

When Emerge Kentucky launched its female candidate training program for Democratic women in 2009, the state was ranked 45^th in the nation for women in politics and just 15% of the members in the state legislature were women.  On Saturday Emerge Kentucky graduated its second class of 24 women and encourages them to run for public office within five years.

Emerge Kentucky is an affiliate of Emerge America that operates candidate training programs in nine states. Including all of the graduates from this year’s classes, the Emerge organizations will have trained and graduated over 900 women since it was founded in 2002.  Emerge America president Karen Middleton attended the final training session and graduation and told the women “you are part of a movement to change the face of politics in America.”