Rural districts are the new frontier for women running for office
At the moment when Esther Roberts decided to run for elected office, she was standing far from her home in Somers, Wisc., amid a sea of pink hats at the March for Women in Washington, D.C., in January 2017. And a few weeks later, when she decided exactly what elected office she was going to run for, she was back home on her computer looking at photos of the seven white men who were the trustees of her local village board. “As soon as I saw that, I knew I’d made my choice,” says Roberts, who works as a housing inspector in Kenosha when she ...
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