--- description: Find out why Stacey Abrams is one of the 100 most influential people of 2021. title: Stacey Abrams: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831860bddedd01fb/698a1cb88fd2ee4d39362e3b/stacey-abrams-time-100-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 15, 2021 # Stacey Abrams by Harry Belafonte  Stacey Abrams Peyton Fulford—Guardian/Eyevine/Redux Stacey Abrams Peyton Fulford—Guardian/Eyevine/ReduxPeyton Fulford—Guardian/Eyevine/Redux The inordinate strength revealed by Black people in America—in their capacity to survive the harsh political journey they experience in this country—is in large part due to the [fortitude of Black women](https://time.com/5909556/stacey-abrams-history-black-women-voting/ "undefined"). The power to exercise this resistance is in no small part due to leaders like Stacey Abrams. Not just Black women but all people have been the beneficiaries of this gift of survival in the name of truth and solidarity. Stacey embodies the enormousness of this gift: alongside a diverse coalition of organizers and volunteers, she spent years working to transform and empower the Georgia electorate. That work resulted in record voter turnout in [recent elections](https://time.com/5838371/stacey-abrams-joe-biden-vice-president/ "undefined"). Thank you, Stacey, for all that you have done. _Belafonte is an activist and a Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning musical artist_ Stacey Abrams Is on the 2021 TIME100 List ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/"},"headline":"Stacey Abrams","datePublished":"2021-09-15T11:16:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:14.088Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/","keywords":["TIME 100","franchise","T100 2021","T100 2021 Leaders"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831860bddedd01fb/698a1cb88fd2ee4d39362e3b/stacey-abrams-time-100-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831860bddedd01fb/698a1cb88fd2ee4d39362e3b/stacey-abrams-time-100-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/","name":"Stacey Abrams"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 | See Everyone on the 2021 TIME100 List","description":"See every 2021 TIME100 Honoree in One Minute","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZgB6AGK2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2021-09-15T10:45:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZgB6AGK2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/","duration":"PT57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096032/stacey-abrams/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```