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SPECIAL ELECTION for HD78
April 29, 2005
Ramirez is co-founder and executive director for Our Future, a nonprofit fellowship program for emerging leaders in the Cedar Rapids area, and she is board president for equity-advocacy group Advocates for Social Justice. She also serves as a peace facilitator at the Kids First Law Center to bring restorative justice practices to the Cedar Rapids Community School District.
“At my core, I believe that Iowans deserve more: More opportunity, more justice and, to be frank, more joy,” Ramirez told The Gazette. “… I’m really stepping up to bring a new generation of leadership to the State House — leaders
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Labor Caucus
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