Suburban women are taking a grassroots approach to shaping Georgia’s future

Suburban women are taking a grassroots approach to shaping Georgia’s future

On a Sunday morning in September outside a coffee shop in Alpharetta, a dozen volunteers are gathered, most of them women, filling out name tags and sipping on lattes. They are preparing to knock on doors for Debra Shigley, a Democrat battling Republican Jason Dickerson in a runoff race for a Georgia State Senate seat. (Shigley ultimately lost the race to Dickerson, 61 percent to 39 percent.) Among the volunteers is Barbara Peters, a recently re…