

Representative Lorena Austin is a fifth-generation Arizonan whose family has been rooted in their district for over 100 years. As the grandchild of farmworkers and child of civil rights activists, they proudly graduated from Mesa Community College, received a degree in Immigration Policy from Arizona State University, and completed a fellowship in State and Local Executive Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Rep. Austin's diverse career spans public, private, and non-profit sectors, including roles with the Verizon Innovative Learning program, and the Maricopa Community College District, where they served as student government advisor, and created the Maricopa Student Senate.
A committed community volunteer, Rep. Austin helped provide COVID-19 relief to their district and the Navajo Nation, and in their first term secured $40 million for the Arizona Promise Program which provides college scholarships for low income students. Rep. Austin is the first Chicane, non-binary person elected to a state legislature in the United States, and is running to make sure that the needs of their community are represented in the legislature by someone who truly understands the needs of working people.
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