Biography:
— Representative from Illinois.
— Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., January 7, 1966.
— Graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Ill., 1984.
— B.S. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, Greensboro, NC, 1988.
— M.B.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1991.
— Financial analyst.
— Business owner.
— Nonprofit spokesperson.
— Professor, City Colleges of Chicago, Kennedy-King College, 2011-2013.
— Professor, Chicago State University, 2013-2015.
— Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2023-present).