Carry Your Torch

Why running for office — from school board to city council — can be empowering rather than draining.

How can we reframe running for office as a form of self-care? In this episode, Jill Barkley Roy of the Emerge Action Fund, which trains women to run for office, and candidate Kate Barr discuss how stepping into leadership and elections — from school board to city council — can be empowering rather than draining.