Education

While I moved frequently during my formative years, I moved to Houston and attended Stafford High School, where I played on the JV baseball team as a sophomore. I then moved to Richmond, where I would attend my high school, Alma Matter, George Bush High School. While at Bush, I was very active in my extra-curriculars by participating in baseball, track & field, cross-country, and NJROTC. NJROTC instilled in me discipline, leadership, and citizenship.

After graduating high school, I received a scholarship to attend Prairie View A&M University's prestigious Navy ROTC program. I continued to gain discipline, hone my leadership skills, and was finally able to help serve my fellow citizens in an official capacity. Prairie View gave me a lot of experiences that I did not receive as a biracial child growing up in Texas. I was around people who looked like me, had relatable experiences, and had the same drive to change the world for the world like me. For those who may be unaware of the history behind Prairie View's campus, the University was established on a former slave plantation known as Alta-Vista in 1876 and remains the only HBCU that is protected under the Texas State Constitution.

Although not the typical route for a congressional hopeful, I chose to major in engineering because I envisioned a world where everyone, regardless of race, religion, creed, nationality, sexual orientation, or sexual identity, could live comfortably in the United States of America. It wasn't until this past election cycle that I realized that for the first time in my 26 years of life, the hope for a free, safe, and clean America was moving further away from me. I knew I had to take action!

I decided to run for US Congress because I saw the harm that the current administration is doing to Houstonians across the political spectrum. I knew that I had the fortitude, integrity, and capability to stand up to the bad actors that are tarnishing this great nation's image, who are erasing the blood that was spilled by and for this country, who are eliminating access to recourses for our most vulnerable communities, who are cozying up and taking favors from those who wish to cause us to harm both foreign and domestic. As a midshipman, I took an oath to uphold the constitution and the idea of a free country, not to a king.

As your U.S. Congressman, I will bow to no man. I will not rest until Houston gains the economic justice that it deserves; I will fight for our children and our most vulnerable, and I will defend the prestigious halls of Congress from autocrats and lobbyists who threaten its integrity.