Tenure

First elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. Member of the Senate since January 9, 2019

Current Assignments

2019 Budget and Taxation Committee

2019 Education, Business, and Administration Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee

2019 Pensions Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee

2019 Senate Chair, Joint Committee on the Chesapeake & Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area

2019 Joint Committee on Ending Homlessness

2020 Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions (Member, 2019)

2019 Women Legislators of Maryland

2019 Maryland Veterans Caucus

Past Senate Service

Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019; Workgroup to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors, 2019-2020.

Public Service

Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program Board, 2020-; Oyster Advisory Commission, 2020-; State Commission on the Capital City, 2019; Chesapeake Bay Commission, 2019-; District 30 Democratic Club, President, 2015-2017; Ward One Residents Association, Annapolis, Vice President, 2014-; Towson University Alumni Asociation Board of Directors, 2013-2015; University System of Maryland, Board of Regents, Student Regent, 2009-2010.

Memberships

Ward One Residents Association; District 30 Democratic Club; Towson Univeristy Alumni Association; Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women.

Awards

Fannie Lou Hamer Award, Martin Luther King, Jr., Committee, 2017; Distinguished Alumni Award, Towson University Honors Committee, 2014; 20 In Their Twenties, The Daily Record, 2014.

Biographical Information

Born in New Jersey, September 9, 1988; Haddon Heights High School, 2006; Towson University, BA, Political Science, magna cum laude, 2010; Johns Hopkins University, MS, Public Policy, 2012; Reserach Assistant, Johns Hopkins Institutions, Office of Government and Community Affairs, 2010-2012; Government Affairs Director, National Aquarium, 2012-2016; Senior Director of University Projects, Margrave Strategies, 2016-2017; Project Leader, Marine Conservation District, 2017-present; Publications: The Young Guardians: Students as Stewards of the Past, Present, and Future of American Higher Education-; A Field Guide for Student Board Members, March 2011; "Speaking for the Fish," Plenary Speech, Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Retreat, 2014; Program Graduate, Emerge Maryland, 2013.