Suburban Women Activists and the Midterms

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 29, 2022

A wave of suburban women activists -- including many in New Jersey -- were energized after President Trump was elected, and were instrumental in flipping the House in 2018. Mara Novak, executive director of NJ 11th for Change, and Patricia Campos-Medina, president of Latina Civic, executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University and host of the podcast Activista Rise Up, talk about what their groups are up to ahead of this year's midterm elections.

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