Tenure

First elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014. Member of the House since 2015.

Current Assignments

2015 Appropriations Committee

2015 Transportation and the Environment Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee

2015 Oversight Committee on Pensions of the Appropriations Committee

2015 Joint Committee on Pensions

2015 Joint Committee on the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area

2015 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness

2017 Workgroup on the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act

2015 Women Legislators of Maryland

2015 Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus, Associate Member

Public Service

Board of Trustees, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017-; AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer; The Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.; The National Federation of the Blind; Federal Hill Neighborhood Association.

Memberships

Fells Point Residents Association, 2011-2014; Citizens Planning and Housing Association Board, 2012-2014; Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance, Board, 2013-; The DREAM Program, Executive Committee Board Member, Alumni Association, 2009-2010; American Constitution Society, Maryland Lawyer, Co-Chair, 2011-2013.

Awards

Legislator of the Year, Hunger Solutions, 2017; Aspen-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership, 2017; Leading Woman, The Daily Record, 2014; Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2013-2014; Forty Under Forty, Baltimore Magazine, 2013.

Biographical Information

Born, Washington, D.C., February 14, 1979; Walt Whitman High School, 1997; Dartmouth College, B.A., History, 2001; University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 2008; Law Clerk to Chief Judge Benson E. Legg and Chief Judge Deborah K. Chasanow, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland 2009-10; Associate, Brown, Goldstein and Levy, LLP, Baltimore Maryland 2010 -; Married; two children.