Pérez Aims for Diversity with Nominees for DNC At-Large Members

A list obtained by The Hill shows that DNC Chair Tom Pérez’s 75 nominees to serve as at-large members would help to greatly diversify the party’s representative membership. If all are elected, Pérez’s nominees would double the number of millennials and Native Americans, and increase the DNC’s LGBTQ presence and representation from Puerto Ricans. The list includes former interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile; NEA President Lily Eskelsen García; CNN commentators Symone Sanders and María Cardona; former Clinton appointee Minyon Moore; former Obama appointees Chris Luand Rick Wade; Cristóbal Alex, President of the Latino Victory Fund; Ellie Pérez, a “DREAMer” from Arizona; Marisa Richmond, a transgender African American woman, among others. “This year’s slate of at-large DNC member nominees reflects the unprecedented diversity of our party’s coalition,” DNC National Press Secretary Michael Tyler said. See the full list here.