Tenure

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

Current Assignments

2019 Budget and Taxation Committee

2023 Chair, Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee

2021 Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee

2019 Pensions Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee (2020, Chair)

2023 Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Program Open Space & Agricultural Land Preservation

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

2019 Women Legislators of Maryland

2022 Executive Board Member, Maryland Veterans' Caucus (Member 2019)

2024 Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus, Associate Member

Past Senate Service

Education, Business, and Administration Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019-2023; Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019; Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness, 2019-2023; Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review, 2020-2023; Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions (Chair 2020-2023), 2019-2023; Workgroup to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors, 2019-2020; Co-Chair, State Park Investment Commission, 2021.

Public Service

Parks and Recreation Commission, 2023-; Task Force to Study Solar Incentives, 2023-; Commission to Study Trauma Center Funding in Maryland, 2023-; Chesapeake Bay Commission, 2019-2024; Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program Board, 2020-; Oyster Advisory Commission, 2020-; State Commission on the Capital City, 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.

Memberships

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

Awards

Legislator of the Year, Maryland League of Conservation Voters, 2024; Open Space Champion Award, Maryland Association of County Park and Recreation Administrators (MACPRA), 2022; Deans' Recognition Award, College of Liberal Arts, Towson University, 2019; Joseph R. Biden Student Ally Award, National Campus Leadership Council, 2019; Fannie Lou Hamer Award, Martin Luther King, Jr., Committee, 2017; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Towson University Honors Committee, 2014; Top 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; University System of Maryland, Board of Regents, Student Regent, 2009-2010; 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, 2017-2018; 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; Adjunct Professor, Towson University Honors College, 2019-present.