I am so ready for Hillary.

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, senator and first lady, announced she’s officially running for president April 12, and although I wasn’t surprised, I was beaming for the rest of the day. Clinton ran in 2008 but lost the Democratic primary to President Obama.

It’s simply archaic that we haven’t had a female president yet. It’s appalling and absurd that the vast majority of our presidents have been old or middle aged white dudes. For a country built on being a melting pot of all different kinds of people, our leadership is abysmally representative of the population.

Should we elect Clinton just because she’s a woman? Of course not. According to the New York Daily News, Clinton wants to focus on building the economy, strengthening families, fixing the political system and keeping the country secure. Will she accomplish all that, if elected? Not even close. No president ever does. But I believe she’ll work toward those goals, and they’re worthy of our time.

Clinton is far from perfect. She’s been criticized for her secretive handling of her emails and for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, among other scandals. And just as it’s impossible to believe the only strong leaders come from old white guys, it’s equally impossible to believe the only strong leaders come from people with the last name Bush or Clinton or Kennedy. These and other families have a strangely strong hold on the country, and I wish we could get some new blood into the political system.

But Clinton has plenty of experience in Washington and abroad. The Atlantic reported that by the end of her four years as secretary of state, she’d traveled to 112 countries, the most of any secretary of state. She pushed health care reform long before Obama and is the only first lady to be elected to the senate. She’s a strong, experienced woman I can really look up to, and I can’t say the same for any of the other leading candidates.