Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Minnesota, District 8, 2018

Candidate, Minnesota State House of Representatives, District 10B, 2014

Representative, Minnesota State House of Representatives, 2012-2014

No caucus information on file.

Coach, Long Distance Track and Field

National Organizer, American Federation of Government Employees, 2009-2013

Member, Aitkin Chamber of Commerce

Member, Cuyuna Lakes Chamber of Commerce

Member, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board

Member, Kinship Partners

Political Organizer, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, 2008

Favorite Book:

The Great Gatsby; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; Catch-22; The Buck Stops Here; Angle of Declination

Favorite Movie:

City of God; Saving Private Ryan; Goodfellas.

Favorite Musician:

Hank Williams; Beatles; Rolling Stones; Bob Dylan; Stevie Wonder; Led Zeppelin; Allman Brothers; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Marvin Gaye; Ray Charles; and plenty more.

Favorite Quote:

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

--"If" by Rudyard Kipling

Favorite TV Shows:

GPS w/ Fareed Zakaria; Mad Men; Colbert Report; Daily Show; True Blood; Sopranos; Boardwalk Empire; and Dexter.