Rep. Chrissy Houlahan | Pennsylvania’s 6th District | 2018

Chrissy Houlahan is an Air Force veteran, engineer, entrepreneur, and educator who is continuing her career of service as the first woman ever to represent Pennsylvania’s 6th District in Congress, and the first Democrat in 160 years. She serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She’s on the leadership team of the New Democrat Coalition and has co-founded two bipartisan caucuses: The Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus and the For Country Caucus. Chrissy grew up in a military family, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She earned her engineering degree from Stanford with an ROTC scholarship and received her M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT. She helped lead several thriving Southeastern Pennsylvania companies including AND1, a basketball apparel company headquartered in Paoli, and B Lab, the organization that launched the B Corporation movement. Chrissy went on to serve in Teach for America as a chemistry teacher at Gratz in North Philadelphia, and then led and scaled a non-profit helping thousands of underserved students across America build their literacy skills.