The one-time lead vocalist for thrash metal band Cab Ride Home was the subject of the campaign trail documentary This is How We Win has cats named Melinda and Bela used to write for a yoga nonprofit, work as a delivery driver for an Afghan Kabob House, and run a mobile yoga-to-metal-music studio has an ERA tattoo went to the AMAs with Demi Lovato got her first cassette tape, The Who’s Quadrophenia, at age 5 and is a fan of Swedish melodic death metal (all time-favorite band: Dark Tranquillity, plus loves At the Gates, Soilwork, and Arch Enemy.) The book that. She recently became executive director of Emerge Virginia, which recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office (including Roem herself.)
Re-elected in 20, Delegate Roem has helped expand Medicaid for nearly 650,000 Virginians, increase teachers’ salaries, cancel school lunch debt ( including personal donations), and ban the gay/trans panic defense, a legal strategy that blames a defendant’s violence on the gender identity or sexual orientation of a victim. She once again shows the might of her pen in “memoir-turned-manifesto” Burn the Page (Viking). state legislature-Danica Roem was a local reporter for a decade. Before she defeated her bathroom-bill-proposing, “chief homophobe” opponent for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017-the first openly transgender person to be elected and seated in any U.S.
