Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix, Wants to Show Women That Anything Is Possible
glamour.com, and while raising a young baby as a single parent (she split from her husband while pregnant with her son). She won her second term in 2020 easily—with more than of the vote.
But still, the world being what it is, she doubted herself.“When I made my decision to run, none of the 15 largest cities [in the country] had a woman mayor,” she tells Glamour. “I had to ask myself, ‘Why is that?’ When I was making the decision, I looked in the mirror and had an image of what I think a mayor looks like.
And it's not mine.”While she might not have had her own image in her mind when she ran, it’s under her name that the city of Phoenix has hosted a Super Bowl, and half-time show by .
And it’s under her leadership that in December 2022, she says, “President Biden and Tim Cook were here to announce that the brains of the iPhones are going to be made in Phoenix.
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