Dear John,

Lillian's List Foundation is committed to recruiting and training women to run, win, and become champions of gender equity in their communities. We are particularly proud of the women who have become champion legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly.

In order to celebrate them, we are running a weekly feature called #WomanCrushWednesday. Our #WomanCrush this week is Representative Kandie Smith!

FAST FACTS

Name: Kandie Smith
District: 8 (Pitt)
In the NCGA since: 2019
Key Committees: Agriculture; Education (K-12 & Universities); Election Law & Campaign Finance Reform; Finance; Health
Previous job: Mayor of Greenville, NC

FEATURED BILL: NC CROWN ACT

Black women are more than three times as likely to have their hair perceived as unprofessional [[link removed]] than women of other races, meaning they can lose out on job offers or even be sent home from the workplace because of their hair.

That's why Rep. Smith, along with her colleagues Reps. Logan, Alston, and Baker, and Sens. Murdock, Salvador, and Foushee introduced the North Carolina CROWN Act [[link removed]] this February.

The NC CROWN Act would ban discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles [[link removed]] historically associated with race, including bantu knots, braids, and twists.

The Act is critical legislation that would help end biased grooming policies in the workplace, and allow all North Carolinians to be treated with dignity and respect, no matter how they wear their hair.

In solidarity,
Pia Nargundkar
Communications Director

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