Jennifer Carroll Foy in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2018. In April 2020, she announced her decision to run for governor.
If elected, she'll be the first Black woman governor in the United States.In 1999, I took my first steps onto the campus of Virginia Military Institute.
Weeks before, I packed up my bedroom in Petersburg, Virginia. Cars pass through Petersburg on the way to do business in Richmond, study in Charlottesville, or play on the shores of Virginia Beach.
It’s a town where little Black girls like me weren’t told they’d amount to much of anything at all. My grandmother who raised me had different plans than the naysayers—she believed I had a lot to give.