Hillary Clinton is dropping some not-so-subtle hints about the themes she will emphasize as policy priorities during the 2016 Presidential campaign. And progressives with their eye on domestic policy may be reassured by what she's indicating.
Today, Hillary Clinton announced that she has tapped Center for American Progress Senior Fellow and Harvard Law School visiting scholar Maya Harris for the Senior Policy Advisor post at Clinton HQ.
Harris (whose older sister is Kamala Harris, our popular Attorney General here in California) is an accomplished attorney and public policy advocate whose focus policy research has primarily been on promoting policies that stabilize the economy and strengthen our democracy through
greater inclusion of women and
people of color.
That Clinton has selected this Maya Harris, is one indication that Clinton may use this primary season to highlight Republican support of restrictive voter ID laws and legislation limiting women's access to reproductive care, both galvanizing issues with the GOP's conservative Southern base but widely unpopular with Americans outside those pockets.
Prior to her Senior Fellow role at CAP, Maya Harris spent five years leading the Ford Foundation's Democracy, Rights and Justice Initiative, which invested more than $750 million in grants to promote increased democratic participation in government and protect human rights both in the United States and abroad.
In addition to Harris, Clinton also named Policy Advisors to her campaign with backgrounds in early childhood education, global human rights, and foreign policy to round out our early glimpse at her playbook.