Rebecca Pearcey is one of seven women of color serving as national political directors for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Rebecca Pearcey walked into the meeting, tossed a baggie on the table and turned to her boss, Jessica Post: “Here’s your husband’s pants,” she told Post, then the executive director (now president) of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The pair are close friends, and Post’s husband had left his zip-off slacks by a fire pit the night before, so the situation isn’t quite as scandalous as it sounds. But Pearcey’s dry humor and quirky style continue in her role as national political director and senior adviser to Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Pearcey still is known in Washington for showing up to suit-and-tie affairs in bright pink galoshes, or carrying color-coded notebooks from meeting to meeting. “She isn’t afraid to be herself or lead with her sense of humor,” Post says, and yet, “what underpins her is this deep, strategic mind … and an absolutely incredible political instinct.” |