Minnesota

Flanagan has excellent qualifications, btw, particularly with respect to Native issues and education.

While in college, Flanagan worked for the campaign of Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, eventually becoming an organizer for the urban Native American community. After college, she worked for the Council of Churches, doing outreach work between Native American families and the Minneapolis public school system.

In her first run for elective office, Flanagan won a seat on the Minneapolis Board of Education in 2004. Flanagan joined Wellstone Action as a trainer of activists, organizers, and candidates... Flanagan also advocated for the successful 2014 effort to raise Minnesota's minimum wage. Flanagan was elected... to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2015.

In 2017, Flanagan, and three other Native women formed the Minnesota House Native American Caucus to represent issues of both urban and rural Native Americans and their other constituents in the legislature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Flanagan