Community organizer and civic engagement specialist Lauren Ashley Simmons joins Lurie to discuss standing up to appointed leaders and what needs to be done to make sure the education community is the best it can be.
About Lauren Ashley Simmons
Lauren Ashley Simmons is running for State Rep. in District 146 to reclaim a seat at the table for all of us. She is a mom and a union organizer who has spent her entire adult life fighting for the people who Greg Abbott is attacking every day. Lauren is fighting to keep our public schools strong by supporting teachers, students, and parents. She’s fighting to get health care for people who have to choose between paying for medicine or paying the rent. She’s fighting for living wages for the very people that Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are trying to keep down, and for the LGBTQIA+ people and their families who Abbott and Paxton are working so hard to tear apart. As a black, queer, woman, Lauren has a deep understanding of these struggles – she lives at the intersection of discrimination based on race, class, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
