Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an accomplished American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. She notably served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 and became the minority leader in 2011, a role she held until 2017. Abrams is a prominent figure in the Democratic Party and established Fair Fight Action, an organization to combat voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts in this area have been widely recognized for increasing voter participation in Georgia, notably impacting the 2020 presidential election and the 2020-21 U.S. Senate elections.

In her historic 2018 gubernatorial race, Abrams became the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. Despite her loss to Brian Kemp, she was lauded for her stance against alleged voter suppression. Continuing her political journey, Abrams was chosen to deliver the response to the State of the Union address in 2019, making her the first African-American woman to do so. She ran for governor again in 2022.

Abrams has also made her mark as a writer, with best-selling nonfiction books Our Time Is Now and Lead from the Outside. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, she wrote eight fiction books before revealing her true identity as an author. Her work While Justice Sleeps was released under her real name in 2021, followed by a children’s book titled Stacey's Extraordinary Words later that year.