She recently became executive director of Emerge Virginia, which recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office (including Roem herself.) Re-elected in 20, Delegate Roem has helped expand Medicaid for nearly 650,000 Virginians, increase teachers’ salaries, cancel school lunch debt ( including personal donations), and ban the gay/trans panic defense, a legal strategy that blames a defendant’s violence on the gender identity or sexual orientation of a victim. She once again shows the might of her pen in “memoir-turned-manifesto” Burn the Page (Viking). state legislature-Danica Roem was a local reporter for a decade. Before she defeated her bathroom-bill-proposing, “chief homophobe” opponent for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017-the first openly transgender person to be elected and seated in any U.S.
