In this Vanity Fair profile of philanthropist Melinda French Gates and her company, Pivotal Ventures, several Vote Run Lead alumni and partners are named alongside our mission:
Pivotal has partnered with Vote Run Lead, the political candidate–training program that has worked with 55,000 women, of whom nearly 60 percent have been women of color and 20 percent from rural America. In 2023 elections, winning alums included Nadia Mohamed of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, who became America’s first Somali American mayor, and Shahana Hanif, New York City’s first Muslim woman elected to the city council.