When Christina Haswood, 26, was on the cusp of deciding to run for the Kansas House of Representatives, she decided to reach out to community leaders in the Lawrence area to see if they would support her. But in the back of her mind, she was thinking along the lines of, "Wait a minute. Why am I doing this, as a young person just out of school?" "Especially in the beginning of my campaign, when the self doubt and the impostor syndrome was huge," she said. Now, Haswood has won her primary and is running unopposed this coming November...
