Full-time legislator; Chair of the Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee; Board member: Women In Need Growing Stronger, Children’s Advocacy Center of Illinois; Secretary of IL Congress of Women Legislators, member: Illinois House Democratic Women’s Caucus, Green Caucus, Children’s Caucus, and Cancer Caucus, Schaumburg Business Association, Illinois Housing Council, Northwest Alliance on Domestic Violence; B.S. in Design, University of Cincinnati; married, has three children. Representative since 2011.