“She not only transformed what a person could do, she transformed a movement,” said WMC President julieburtonwmc of our cherished friend Chris Jahnke. We remember her life, charisma, and legacy.
“She was part of it — she empowered a lot of women to run for office,” Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said in a phone interview. Ms. Jahnke collaborated with the center to provide training for women candidates.
Ms. Jahnke advised, “Seize the election night spotlight to remind voters why you ran in the first place.” Ms. Jahnke grew up in Albert Lea and went to Winona State University in Minnesota, where she studied mass communications, graduating in 1985. In 2012, she earned a master’s degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.
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