A’Shanti Gholar is a liberal activist who has been active in Democratic Party politics and related left-of-center causes all of her adult life. She currently serves as the political director of Emerge America, an organization that trains Democratic and left-wing women to run for office.
Early Life
Gholar was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.3
Career
Democratic Party Work
Gholar got her start as an activist in college when she joined the College Democrats at UNLV. She participated in a national round table of young political activists on the 2004 presidential election that was aired on WBUR radio, which is Boston’s NPR affiliate. At the same time, she was elected president of the Young Democrats of Nevada.10
Gholar resigned from the DNC in 2016 after she failed to gain the post of National Director of Community Engagement. Her departure angered the CBC because she was in the process of planning its events at the Democratic National Convention. Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wanted to bring in her own people to fill Gholar’s position. 0){
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