As the Legislative Director to Senator Angelique Ashby (D-Sacramento), Cassidy Denny has achieved a career that she could only dream of just five years ago.

Denny grew up in Sacramento, but she did not envision joining the policy world when she was recruited to Colorado State University to play volleyball as an undergraduate. In fact, she pursued a degree in Business Management and Finance because she was good at math and knew that it could open the right doors.

It wasn’t until Denny learned about the policies behind slavery and other tragedies involving Black history on a learn and serve trip to Ghana that Denny realized that she wanted to pursue a career in justice.

“I’ve always been the most opinionated friend in my friend groups and the loudest one who’s like, ‘that’s not how this should be’ or ‘I don’t like this’, or very strong willed, as my mom will say,” said Denny. “The media doesn’t paint politics to be the nicest place, but you do have to be loud and strong willed and have a passion for something.”

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