Thank you for the comment, it's been a long a winding journey.

To be honest, growing up in North Versailles, I used to work at the Sheetz gas station on Mosside Blvd. in Monroeville (everyone would call it the Pitcairn Sheetz), overnights and went to college during the day at Pitt. I always assumed that I wasn't qualified to get into politics aside from voting and occasionally volunteering with some campaigns. I ended up graduating from Pitt in 2017 and finally got my dream job of working at Carnegie Mellon as a Research Associate in a cognitive psychology lab. 60 Mins

But after doing this for about a year I realized that I needed to get more engaged with local politics and do my part, so I started studying for the LSATs. Once I got into Pitt Law, I started attending political events. To be honest, it was difficult, for example I met Rich Fitzgerald about four times, and he would give me maybe 1-2 words and not make eye contact. After a while I started to figure out who was willing to bring me under their wing and who was reluctant. I found that the Vice President of the local IBEW 29, Jim DePoe was very welcoming and introduced me to state reps. From there I attempted to work on legislation while in law school with my state senator Jim Brewster about public safety, and during my second year of law school I became the president of Pitt Law Dems where I was able to meet more folks and hold panels with public figures such as Gisele Fetterman and Lindsey Williams. We even ended up holding a congressional debate this year. And then last year, when George A Matta passed away (RIP) senator Jim Brewster made a recommendation that I be appointed to fill the position for the remaining few months.

Finally, earlier this year I ran for the full term and ended up winning.

I went from fighting bar rush at Sheetz with two other teammates at 2:30 on a Saturday morning to being the youngest elected state committee member, and my advice would be to just keep making connections, show up, and keep going as best as you can.