My undergraduate degree is in Civil Engineering. I attended Georgia Tech on scholarship, as a National Merit Scholar, and graduated with honors in 1993. In 1997, I went back to school, to become a lawyer. I graduated from Georgetown Law, also with honors, in 2000. I am the product of public schools, many, many of them. I am an Army brat. Patapsco Middle School—where I landed in eighth grade—was my sixth since kindergarten. 

When it came time to raise my own family, I booked it straight back to Ellicott City, to where my Mom and Dad still live in the house behind the old Enchanted Forest, to the town and the schools my younger sisters and brother grew up in. So that my kids would have a physical permanence, a longevity that hadn’t been part of my own childhood. My own babies are now 16 and 13. This County’s very youngest constituents are why I’m in this race to be Howard County’s next Executive.