Aydin, Andrew

Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson represents Florida’s 24th Congressional District. It is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse districts in the nation, and includes parts of northwest Miami-Dade and southern Broward counties. She was elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and currently serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure and Education and Labor committees, and is the chair of the Education and Labor Committee’s Health, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee. Her tenure in Congress, now in its sixth term, has been marked by her signature spirit of unrelenting advocacy on behalf of the less fortunate. Legislative priorities include job creation, improving education, ending gun violence, voting rights and empowerment, safeguarding access to health care and the social safety net, protecting unions and multiemployer pensions in peril, and other key issues that impact communities of color. In the 117th Congress, Rep. Wilson passed the landmark Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys Act, which will put in place this year a bipartisan commission to address disparities in society, education, economic, health, and criminal, and other areas that have for generations plagued this population and create policy solutions to address them. As a former elementary school principal, community leader, school board member, state legislator, and founder of the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project – an in-school dropout prevention program – Wilson has developed a well-earned reputation as a “Voice for the Voiceless.”