Députée Karen Basse

Karen Basse est le U.S.. Représentant du district du Congrès 33e Californie. Elle a été choisie par le leader démocrate Nancy Pelosi pour siéger au prestigieux Comité Politique et directeur qui définit l'orientation politique du Caucus démocratique. Fouet démocratique Steny Hoyer du Maryland nommé Basse pour servir de whip adjointe du.

Avant de la servir en tant que représentant actuel CA-33, Karen Basse fait l'histoire quand l'Assemblée de Californie a élu son Président pour être son 67e, son catapultant de devenir la première femme afro-américaine dans le pays pour servir dans ce rôle législatif de l'Etat puissant.

Alors que le Président, Bass delivered change and results to her constituents in Los Angeles and the people of California by jumpstarting infrastructure projects to create new jobs in the state. Bass has also championed efforts to provide quality healthcare to Californians and expand opportunities for California’s youth.

Under Bass’ leadership the Assembly fast-tracked federal economic stimulus legislation that aided Californians who have been affected by the national economic crisis as well as jumpstarted billions of dollars of infrastructure projects.

Former Speaker Bass has proudly authored legislation that expands Healthy Families Insurance coverage to prevent children from going without health care. Bass’s legislation also included bills to reform schools and improve conditions and services for youth. Bass has successfully passed legislation that reduces dropouts by expanding multiple pathways in high school to prepare students for college, carrière et la responsabilité civique. Another piece of legislation Bass authored provided LA Unified School District with access to over $600 millions dans les fonds des écoles supplémentaires.

Bass continues to be an advocate for foster kids and she had carried several bills to support programs and funding to ensure foster youth have better chances for success including legislation that uses federal funds to extend support to California’s foster youth to the age of 21 as well as legislation that helps California draw down a share of federal family connection grants. These grants have a proven record of placing foster kids in the healthy, stable care of relatives and decreasing the number of youth in California’s foster care system from 120,000 à 65,000 dans la dernière décennie.

Even though former Speaker Bass led an entire house of the state Legislature, elle n'a pas oublié les électeurs de sa communauté. Some of the former Speakers’ legislative accomplishments with local impact include expanding the Baldwin Hills Conservancy and securing more than $2.3 million to help revitalize the historic Vision Theater in Los Angeles.

Dans un effort pour répondre aux gens de son quartier, former Speaker Bass created the People’s Council. This council is a volunteer group composed of community leaders who seek to involve constituents in the public policy process. As Chair of the Legislative Black Caucus, Bass also commissioned a report to research the demographic profile of Black Californians and provide a better understanding of the basic social and economic conditions currently faced by the community.

Un résident de longue date de Los Angeles, Bass was elected to the CA State legislature in 2005 pour représenter Culver City, West Los Angeles, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Leimert Parc, Baldwin Hills, Windsor Hills, Ladera Heights, le district Crenshaw, Little Ethiopia and portions of Korea Town and South Los Angeles and the United State Congress representing Culver City, Hollywood, Ladera Heights, Silverlake, Los Feliz, Jefferson Park et Windsor Hills.

Avant sa vie dans le bureau, Karen started her political organizing as a middle school student when she signed up to be a precinct captain for Robert Kennedy in 1968. Basse fondé et dirigé la Coalition communautaire, a community-based social justice organization in South Los Angeles to empower residents to get involved in making a difference. In addition to her 14 ans comme directeur exécutif de la Coalition communautaire, Basse a une longue histoire en tant que militant, creating change on both a local and international level.

Bass also worked for nearly a decade as a Physician Assistant and served as a Clinical Instructor at the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program.

Basse, qui avait une fille, Emilia Basse-Lechuga, son-in law Michael Wright and four step children. Émilie voulait suivre les traces de sa mère et aider les autres; La passion d'Emilie pour la vie continue à être une motivation pour Basse.

Basse grandi avec trois frères dans la région de Venise / Fairfax de Los Angeles. Elle est la seule fille de DeWitt et Wilhelmina Basse. Basse diplômé de l'école secondaire à Hamilton, Cal State Dominguez Hills, et l'Université de Californie du Sud Programme scolaire Assistant spécialiste en médecine de

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