24th District
Assistant Majority Leader
Years Served
January 2007 - Present
Committee Assignment
Consumer Protection (Chairperson); Approp-Elementary & Secondary Educ; Appropriations-Human Services; Health Care Licenses; Higher Education; Special Issues Subcommittee (AES); Executive; Special Investigating Committee II.
Biography
Full-time state legislator; former Senior Policy Advisor to Lt. Governor Patrick Quinn; worked in Cicero Public Schools for 17 years; community volunteer and current member of Children's Center of Cicero and Berwyn, Cicero Youth Services; founder of Cicero Youth Commission; former UFCW member; AA in Liberal Arts, Morton College (2001), BA in Public Administration, Northeastern University; married (Charlie) and mother of two daughters and one son.