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American University
Jennifer Lawless is a nationally recognized expert on women’s involvement in politics. She is the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office and the co-author of the book, It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office. She has also issued several policy reports on the barriers that impede women’s candidate emergence.