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“There is definitely momentum,” says Erin Loos Cutraro, the Founder and CEO of the non-partisan She Should Run. “There’s a sense of urgency among women to both fix what is broken and provide their experience and perspective to create healthier government.”

Gone are the days where She Should Run had to constantly explain why our mission was worthwhile. Our new reality is a community of tens of thousands of women discussing the best ways to get onto local boards and commissions, how to handle sexism, and how to navigate local politics.

Whether it's through networking or ground support, the organization [She Should Run] has a simple mission: Get 250,000 women in office by 2030. It's ambitious, but if achieved, it would mean achieving gender parity among U.S. elected officials (All told, there are 500,000 elected positions in the U.S.)

She Should Run announced in July that it was launching a national campaign to achieve gender parity among America's elected officials by the year 2030..."We really felt like it was important to make it clear that we're in it for the long haul," Cutraro told Axios in July. "We know it's not going to happen overnight."

By the numbers: More than 15,000 women have contacted She Should Run — a nonpartisan organization dedicated to recruiting and training women to run for elected office — since last November.

"It's about building the pipeline," Erin Loos Cutraro says. "If we want to see equity for women in government in our lifetime, we have to have record-breaking election cycles in the next few cycles to come," she says." We know this isn't going to happen overnight, but we cannot let off the gas right now."

Founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro says this new crop of political talent is “sick of not having their voices and perspectives represented” and recognizes “the impact they can make at all levels of government.”

This year, thousands of women have said they want to run for office. What’s motivating them? In partnership with She Should Run and VoteRunLead, we surveyed 750 female potential candidates to find out.

On Saturday, October 14, at 8 PM, Provincetown Dramatics Arts will present a benefit reading of "An American Daughter," Wendy Wasserstein’s prescient play about how partisan politics, the press, and personal relationships impact the nomination of a woman seeking a top governmental position.

"Erin Loos Cutraro, CEO of She Should Run, a nonpartisan group, says while the overall pace of adding women to elected office is too slow — women, after all, comprise just under 20 percent of Congress."

“As leaders working to strengthen our democracy,” Cutraro said in a press release. “It is our duty to provide the pathway for women today and tomorrow who are stepping up to serve their communities.”

"'We have been overjoyed with the surge of women who have stepped up to say they want to run for office since Election Day,' She Should Run founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro told CNN."