Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes has filed to run for Congress in her native New York state, a spokesperson for her campaign confirmed Tuesday.
in Salt Lake City — making her the most recent American woman to do so — Hughes competed for another year before attending Yale, from which she graduated in 2009. She went on to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and, per her LinkedIn page, recently spent 3½ years as a corporate associate at a law firm in Manhattan. Hughes is now in full-time pursuit of a business degree from Stanford University.
“Born and raised on Long Island, Sarah is concerned about where we’re headed, whether it’s rising prices, public safety and gun violence, or threats to women’s health,” the spokesperson, Max Kramer, said in an email.On a campaign webpage for Hughes, which as yet has few details about her candidacy, she is quoted as saying: “I’ve always been hopeful about our future; about our ability to come together and achieve great things in the face of difficulty and adversity.
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