Georgia State Rep. Bee Nguyen to receive EMILY's List award

WASHINGTON — EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, announced that the 2022 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award will be awarded to Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen. The award will be presented at the We Are EMILY Gala on May 3, which will feature a panel with the nominees moderated by journalist Joan Walsh.

“EMILY’s List is thrilled to announce that Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen is the recipient of the 2022 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award,” Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List, announced in a news release. “Rep. Nguyen made history when she became the first Asian American Democratic woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. Nguyen has shaped history through her fierce defense of democracy during her time in office as she led the successful effort to restore voting rights to over 53,000 people impacted by a racist voter suppression policy in Georgia and fought back against the Trump campaign’s false claims of fraud after the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Nguyen fiercely advocates at the intersection of reproductive choice and voting rights, challenging the employment of voter suppression tactics to pass anti-choice legislation. She is a proven champion of voting rights, reproductive freedom, and equality.