Frederica S. Wilson, House of Representatives
Florida
Democrat
District 24
Congresswoman Wilson serves on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In 2013, she received the Broward Black Elected Officials Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Community Service Award. She has personally contributed to the community through her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She introduced the “Rilya Wilson Act,†which requires each state to develop a plan for the prompt reporting of missing foster children, successfully advocated for the Obama Administration to extend Temporary Protected Status to Haitian nationals, hosted a foreclosure prevention and mediation conference to offer assistance to those struggling with mortgages, and requested that the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division investigate the Miami Police Department following the shooting deaths of several black men by police in 2010 and 2011.
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