Speaker, Maine State House of Representatives, 2022-present

Representative, Maine State House of Representatives, District 118, 2022-present

Assistant Majority Leader, Maine State House of Representatives, 2020-2022

Representative, Maine State House of Representatives, District 40, 2016-2022

Candidate, Maine State House of Representatives, District 118, 2022

Candidate, Maine State House of Representatives, District 40, 2016, 2018, 2020

Chair, Rules and Business of the House Committee

Former Member, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Maine State House of Representatives

Former Member, Engrossed Bills Committee, Maine State House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Health and Human Services, Maine State House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Judiciary, Maine State House of Representatives

Founder, Maine Black Community Development, Incorporated

Co-Chair, African American Collection Advisory Committee of Maine, present

Member, Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, present

Member, Maine Prison Advocacy Coalition, present

Board Member, University of Southern Maine Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, present

Former Member, Intergovernmental Pretrial Justice Reform Task Force, Maine State Legislature

Co-Founder/President, Maine Freedom Trails

Former Chair, Maine State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Co-Founder/Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Fellows

President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Portland Branch

Board Member, Seven Eagles Media

Awards:

Woman of the Year, Emerge Maine, 2020; Gerda Haas Award for Excellence in Holocaust and Human Rights Education and Leadership, 2020; Deborah Morton Award, University of New England, 2014; Roger Baldwin Award, American Civil Liberties Union of Main, 2008; Bayard Rustin Award, Equality Maine, 2006; Rising Tide Award, Maine's People Alliance