Tenure

First elected to the Senate in 2010. Member of the Senate since 2011.

Current Assignments

2019 Vice Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee (Member, 2015)

2015 Education, Business, and Administration Subcommittee, Budget & Taxation Committee

2019 Legislative Policy Committee

2019 Spending Affordability

2017 Executive Nominations Committee

2015 Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology

2015 Joint Committee on Pensions

2011 Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families

2019 Assessment and Funding of School Facilities Workgroup

2019 Senate Chair, Marijuana Legalization Work Group

Past Senate Service

Chair, Senate Executive Nominations Committee, 2017-2018; Pensions Subcommittee, Budget & Taxation Committee, 2015-2019; Senate Special Committee on Ethics Reform, 2012-2014; Labor, Licensing, and Regulation Subcommittee of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2011-2014; Environment Subcommittee of the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2011-2014; Education Subcommittee of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2011-2014; Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2011-2014; Commission to Study Campaign Finance Law, 2011-2012; Joint Committee on Welfare Reform, 2011-2014; Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government, 2011-2014.

Public Service

Maryland Tourism Development Board, 2019-; Educational Development Specifications Workgroup, 2018-; Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland, 2017-2018; Workgroup to Study the Implementation of Universal Access to Prekindergarten for 4-year olds, 2017-2018; Maryland Task Force to Study an Adult High School Concept, 2016-2017; Council on Open Data, 2014-; Chair, Local (Video Lottery) Development Council, 2014-; Task Force to Study the Impact of Ocean Acidification on State Waters, 2014-2015; Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, 2011-2015; Early Childhood Development Advisory Council, 2011-.

Memberships

Patterson Park Neighborhood Association, 2015-; Downtown Baltimnore Family Alliance, Board of Directors, 2013-2016; Baltimore EdTech Advisory Board, 2013; Education Equality Project, 2010-; Envision Baltimore, Ambassador, 2010; Canton Community Association, 2006-2015.

Awards

Cunningham Award for Public Service and Academic Achievement, University of Maryland School of Law , 2010; Distinguished Presidential Citation, Baltimore City Council President , 2006.

Biographical Information

Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, April 15, 1983; Davidson College, B. A., political science and economics, 2005; The Johns Hopkins University, School of Education, M. A. T, 2007; University of Maryland School of Law, J. D., (magna cum laude), 2010; Teach for America, Baltimore City Schools, 2005–2007; Member, St. Casimir Catholic Church, Baltimore; Director, Reform Initiatives, School of Education, The Johns Hopkins University, 2012-; Married; two children.