Action Forum, and a conference hosted by the Yale Kerry Initiative and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. In 2019, Abrams contributed an essay to Foreign Affairs magazine on how identity politics strengthens liberal democracy. Abrams was featured in All In: The Fight For Democracy, a documentary about voter suppression in the United States. In it, she talks about her family's voting struggles in Mississippi and voter suppression during her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign. Abrams appeared as an actor in "Coming Home", the season 4 finale of Star Trek: Discovery, as the President of United Earth. Personal life Abrams is the second of six children born to Reverend Carolyn and Reverend Robert Abrams, originally of Mississippi. Her siblings include Andrea Abrams, U.S. district judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, Richard Abrams, Walter Abrams, and Jeanine Abrams McLean. In April 2018, Abrams wrote an op-ed for Fortune revealing that she owed $54,000 in federal back taxes and held $174,000 in credit card and student loan debt. She was repaying the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) incrementally on a payment plan after deferring her 2015 and 2016 taxes, which she stated was necessary to help with her family's medical bills. During the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, she donated $50,000 to her own campaign. In 2019, she completed payment of her back taxes to the IRS in addition to other outstanding credit card and student loan debt reported during the gubernatorial campaign. Electoral history Bibliography Romance novels (as Selena Montgomery): Further reading References External links Stacey Abrams for Governor campaign website Official page at the Georgia House of Representatives (archived) |- |- |- |- |- 1973 births Living people 2020 United States presidential electors 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century American women writers Activists from Georgia (U.S. state) African-American businesspeople African-American Methodists African-American novelists African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state) African-American women in politics American United Methodists American women company founders American company founders American women novelists Candidates in the 2018 United States elections Candidates in the 2022 United States elections American civil rights activists Women civil rights activists Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs alumni Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) Novelists from Mississippi Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin Romantic fiction writers Spelman College alumni Women romantic fiction writers Women state legislators in Georgia (U.S.