Ep 09: Congresswoman Cori Bush, ERA Caucus: Mission Possible

Equality Talks: The Official ERA Podcast

Meet Congresswoman Cori Bush, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri and a co-leader of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) Caucus. Congresswoman Cori Bush is an activist, nurse, pastor, and community leader who is redefining what it means to be a member of Congress.

Host Elisa Parker speaks with Bush about her leadership to ensure that the ERA is published in the U.S. Constitution, the moment she decided to run, the momentum of youth activists and why we must flow and grow together, her personal passion behind the Unhoused Bill and why we are all essential in uplifting a defining moment in history for all people to experience equity and equality. In this inspiring discussion she remindes us to, "mind your mission, the sky is not your limit and walk in your purpose."

Hosted by nationally acclaimed radio host and Equal Voices/ERA Coalition, Elisa Parker, Equality Talks bridges the intersections of equality, justice, and social activism to unify as a collective and change the status quo.

Equality Talks focuses on the key facets of equality across all communities, including everything from gender, racial, economic and reproductive justice, to labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ rights. Programming for the month of August highlights Women's Equality Day, the March on Washington and members of the Congressional ERA Caucus.

For more information on Equality Talks go to www.ERACoaltion.org and www.EqualVoice.org.

The ERA Coalition was founded in 2014 to bring concerted, organized action to the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA Coalition has a sister organization, the Fund for Women’s Equality, which promotes public education and outreach on the need for constitutional equality. Composed of more than 290 organizations across the country representing millions of people, the Coalition is a movement of movements focused on overall equality in the United States.

While the effort to amend the constitution to include sex equality began nearly a century ago, our renewed efforts are centered on women of color (African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latina, and Native American), gender-nonconforming and transgender women and girls, and nonbinary people – those who are most impacted by systemic inequities.

www.eracoalition.org | www.fundforwomensequality.org

About Cori:

Congresswoman Cori Bush, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri and a co-leader of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) Caucus. She is an activist, nurse, pastor, and community leader who is redefining what it means to be a member of Congress.

Representative Bush has lived the struggles regular, everyday people endure; from the impact of skyrocketing housing costs to payday lending to systemic racism in policing, she’s lived the ways injustice in our nation holds people back in St. Louis and across America. In just her first year, Congresswoman Cori has changed the debate in Congress by introducing major pieces of legislation like a Green New Deal for Cities and the People’s Response Act, and led a campaign on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to prevent people from being evicted during the pandemic. Earlier this year, she made national headlines when she shared her own powerful experience with sexual assault and abortion. Congresswoman Cori is a transformational leader with a relentless drive to deliver for Missouri’s first district–especially for people who have long been harmed by the way our government too often prioritizes the rich and powerful over everyone else.

Congresswoman Cori has lived the struggles that many in her community have faced. She is a single mom, has experienced being unhoused and evicted, and she is a survivor of police, sexual, and domestic violence. Her mission is to do the very most for her community — starting with those who have the very least.