Biography
A Representative from Georgia. Born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga. , May 1, 1971. Graduated from Benjamin E. Mays High School, Atlanta, Ga. , 1989. Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. , 1989&ndash. 1995. Civil servant. Public advocate. Business executive. Member of the Atlanta, Ga. , board of education, 2002&ndash. 2005. Member of the Atlanta, Ga. , city council, 2005&ndash. 2017. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative John R. Lewis (December 1, 2020&ndash. January 3, 2021).