By Emma Gray HuffPost Illustration/Getty Images From left, Ai-jen Poo, Alicia Garza and Cecile Richards are among the prominent women behind Supermajority, which they launched on Monday. She is a co-founder of Supermajority, a new organization fighting for gender equity, and spent 12 years as the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Cecile Richards, you had one job. Cecile Richards Co-founder, Supermajority. Jessica Valenti, columnist for The Guardian, book author, and an outspoken feminist, recently interviewed Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood (who … According to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood for over a decade, protesters who wave anti-abortion signs outside one of the organization… Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Lawmakers have been trying to “defund” Planned Parenthood for at least a decade, but with Donald Trump in … On April 29, former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards announced the launch of Supermajority. And c’mon, let’s face it, it probably didn’t seem like such a bad bet. Cecile Richards has had quite a year. In a statement released today, Cecile Richards, who has led Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, has confirmed that she will step down from her position as president later this year. Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards is planning to step down from her role as president after more than a decade at the helm, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Had. Alicia Garza and Cecile Richards, both of the group Supermajority, join Morning Joe to discuss efforts to mobilize women, particularly women of color, to vote in the coming election. The group will be led by three prominent activists in the progressive community — Cecile Richards, the former head of Planned Parenthood, Alicia Garza, the co-founder of … Over the course of her 12-year tenure from 2006 to 2018 at the helm of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards transformed the organization into a … Cecile Richards is a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice. Former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has teamed up with Alicia Garza of Black Lives Matter and Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance to form a … Amy Davidson writes about the questioning of Cecile Richards at the congressional hearings on Planned Parenthood. Richards placed the fate of her organization on the likelihood of a Hillary Clinton presidency and Republican spinelessness. And that was to make sure that the federal money truck kept backing in to Planned Parenthood’s driveway. Then-Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testifies on Capitol Hill on Sept. 29, 2015. Cecile Richards is a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice. As president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, Richards has worked to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and strengthen the movement for sexual and reproductive rights. Cecile Richards Is Starting A New Political Organization And Linking Back Up With Planned Parenthood. Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza are launching Supermajority, an organization to mobilize women to get involved in politics, on Monday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Opinion by . On February 15, 2006, Cecile Richards, the daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards, and formerly the deputy chief of staff to the U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (the Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives), became president of the organization. One. Richards said that leading the organization “has been the honor of my lifetime.” You. 01/12/2017 05:25 ‘A Lot Is On The Table’ For Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo And Alicia Garza The leaders of Supermajority are still vague on specifics, but the energy behind the new political organization is high. Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo and Alicia Garza are creating an intersectional political organization dedicated to building tangible power for American women. Cecile Richards began her political activism at a very young age. In this profile from the Winter 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine, Rachel M. Cohen writes about how Richards used her strategic vision and political organizing experience to transform the organization. As the daughter of the late Ann Richards, former Democratic Governor of Texas, Cecile Richards was raised in progressive left-wing politics and she is very comfortable in the political sphere. She took questions on the organization… In 2015, Richards faced five hours of mostly hostile grilling by Congress after some activists released video purporting to show that the organization illegally sold fetal tissue. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, explains which health services are reimbursed by the government and discusses Paul Ryan's vow to defund the organization. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. Subscribe here. This week, a new organization, Supermajority, was introduced by a trio of high-profile, progressive leaders: Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood; Alicia Garza, a … Her Army Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards (in red), with patients, staff, and volunteers at the organization’s new health-and-education facility in Long Island City, Queens. In a public statement, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards confirmed that she will step down from the organization she has led for the last 12 years. Cecile Richards announced on January 26, 2018, that she will be stepping down as Planned Parenthood's CEO.