Representative, Missouri State House of Representatives, 2013-2017

Delegate, Missouri Democratic State Convention, 2008

Former Member, Appropriations - Revenue, Transportation, and Economic Development Committee, Missouri State House of Representatives

Former Member, Economic Development and Business Attraction and Retention Committee, Missouri State House of Representatives

Former Member, Select Committee on Budget, Missouri State House of Representatives

Owner, Dean & Dunn, Limited Liability Corporation, 2011-present

Realtor, Keller Williams Eastland Partners, Incorporated, 2007-2014

City Planner, City of Kansas City Missouri, 2007-2012

Member, Saint James United Methodist Church, present

Member, Advisory Board, Engage Kansas City Leadership

Course Developer/ Instructor, Communiversity Neighborhood and Economic Development

Member, Construction Committee, Kansas City Habitat for Humanity

Member, Freedom, Incorporated

Former Fellow, Housing and Urban Development, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Board Member, Kansas City Youth Court

President, Omicron Xi Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated

Member, Steering Committee, Greater Kansas City Food Policy Coalition

Board Member, Vine Street District Council

Favorite Quote:

Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die-Daniel Burnham
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,
The first woman held hers back
For on the faces around the fire,
She noticed one was black.

The next man looking cross the way
Saw one not of his church,
And couldn't bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The third man sat in tattered clothes;
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store.
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy poor.

The black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.

And the last man of this forlorn group
Did naught except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.

The logs held tight in death's still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without,
They died from the cold within-Author Unknown
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it
William Penn