Maryland Forward Party

When I was 16, I served as a Congressional Page in the U.S. House of Representatives. I went in expecting to get a firsthand view of the legislative process but left in frustration at the lack of actual dialogue between our nation's leaders. After spending most of my early adult years avoiding politics like the plague, my dad reminded me that if any of this was going to change in my lifetime, I needed to stop complaining and start doing. As an advocate for a universal basic income (UBI) and finding myself politically homeless due to the seismic shift in the Republican Party, I signed up the next day for the Forward Party. I'm a firm believer in the need to modernize our civic mechanisms through open primaries and nonpartisan districting to make sure our government works for the people and not the other way around.