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Where are all the black women on Capitol Hill?
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It’s the question that motivated Rhonda Foxx to form the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance, a coalition of minority staffers from across the political spectrum, and address what she saw as a dire lack of diversity in her workplace.
“We just had the realization that we are underrepresented,” Foxx, chief of staff to Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.), said on the latest episode of the Women Rule podcast.
Foxx and Meaghan Lynch, communications director for Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), founded the BWCA in January to much fanfare.
Lynch recalled the group’s first informal gathering that month.
“Maybe 150 women showed up,” she said. “We didn’t have speeches or remarks or anything. Everyone just showed up and just talked amongst each other. People didn’t…
