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Val Arkoosh’s commitment to helping women across Pennsylvania is the subject of her new web video, entitled “What We Need.”

Arkoosh, a physician, is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th district, the seat that Allyson Schwartz is vacating.

In the video, Arkoosh and four other women take turns discussing her credentials, and the importance of her campaign to women. Complementing the speakers is a straightforward montage of campaign footage depicting Arkoosh cooking with her children and highlighting her work as a doctor.

“I’m running for Congress because I believe that we have got to change the conversation that’s going on in Washington right now,” Arkoosh says in the video. “And I think the only way we’re going to change that conversation is to change the people that are sitting around the table.”

“Women need to have a voice, because they need a voice for children, they need a voice for families,” said Michele Weiner Lockman, who is featured in the video. “And they need a diverse voice that we don’t have right now because we don’t have many women in politics.”

With Rep. Schwartz giving up her seat in 2014, it is possible that all 18 of Pennsylvania’s representatives in Congress will be men. Arkoosh has one shot at preventing this, along with Marjorie Margolies, who is also running in the 13th. Other female contenders include Shaughnessy Naughton, running in PA-8 and Erin McClelland running in PA-12.

Arkoosh and Margolies are competing against state Rep. Brendan Boyle and state Senator Daylin Leach.