Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made the announcement in the former mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, on February 9, 2019.

Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, is running for the Democratic nomination for president. She made her announcement in February 2019 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a former mill town that ties into her longtime message about fighting for the working class.

Warren’s platform will focus on many of the same issues she’s worked on since she was a Harvard Law School professor who helped President Barack Obama create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the 2008 recession: cracking down on big banks, making corporations more accountable to workers, and expanding health care and housing for the middle class and low-income Americans.

Warren was the first major name in a large field of 2020 Democrats to announce her plans to explore a presidential run. Since then, plenty of other big names have announced, including Senate colleagues Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).