Former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill is set to release a memoir following last year’s controversy with leaked nude photographs and a House Ethics Committee investigation that ended her career in Congress.
She Will Rise will be part memoir, part gender-equity battle plan, according to a report by the New York Times. It is scheduled to be published by Grand Central Publishing on Aug. 18, 2020, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Hill resigned from Congress on Oct. 27, 2019, after stories circulated revealing alleged affairs with both a female and male aide. She admitted to a “throuple” relationship between her, her husband at the time, and the female aide, but denied any relationship with a male staffer.
In her farewell speech on the House floor, the 32-year-old California Democrat blamed her now ex-husband, Kenny Heslep, and Republican operatives for the release of the nude photographs without her consent. She also assigned blame to “gutter politics” and a “double standard” for women in explaining why she was resigning.
This message will reportedly be echoed in the memoir. Hill wants to “be part of the fight to create the change” young girls need, as she wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times.
Hill has not shied away from politics in her time out of office. She recently started HER Time, an organization with a mission to empower and elect women and young people into office.
So excited that we officially launched @HTime2020! Make sure to follow us to follow our work, including the first round of candidates we’re supporting! ?? https://t.co/AX9DzONRal
— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) February 20, 2020
Anna Sproul-Latimer, Hill’s literary agent and representative of several other women who have spoken out about gender discrimination and sexual harassment, said she hopes to empower writers whose voices are not often heard.
“My clients all share a sense that they really want to change the story of the world in some way,” she said.
“It would be much easier for me to just disappear, but I’m not, and this is an act of defiance, staying in the forefront,” Hill said. “You can’t let other people take away your power or your voice, even when it’s hard.”
