My New Role:  Vice Chair of the Economic Matters Committee Speaker Joseline Pena-Melnyk has put her stamp on the Maryland House of Delegates with   new leadership assignments .  I am deeply honored to have been named the Vice Chair of the Economic Matters Committee.   My 2026 Bills This year’s legislative session begins on January 14th.  I will be introducing 17 bills on a wide range of issues.  Linked below are brief fact sheets for most of my bills.  In the coming weeks, I

New Year, New Speaker I am beyond thrilled and excited to have been part of the historic election of our new Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Joseline Pena-Melnyk.  Throughout her life  and especially in her almost twenty years of service in the House, she has led with compassion, integrity, and a commitment to justice and inclusion. Joseline has been a personal mentor to me and so many others. I look forward to working under her leadership as we continue to move M

It has been a hard year: a year of unimaginable cruelty and suffering, a year of witnessing the daily dismantling of decades of progress, a year of one devastating heartbreak after another. But it’s also been a year of extraordinary love and resistance—a resistance that is beginning to crack the authoritarian system we are fighting.  I came to politics through community organizing and social justice movements. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at how change happens in the face

Dear Friend, Once again, President Trump has taken a tragedy and used it to demonize and spew hate against immigrants. This week he is targeting Afghan refugees.  We have many people from Afghanistan who now call our community home. Over the last few years, I have been honored to get to know quite a few of them. They have a long history with repressive and corrupt governments. In choosing America, they felt they had arrived in a country that respects individual freedoms and t