MD-01: Heather Mizeur (D)
Heather Mizeur has spent her professional life over the last 25 years engaged in public service. She is a policy expert, a former elected official and gubernatorial candidate, a farmer and the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization focused on bridging the partisan political divide . The common thread through all of her work is a desire to advance bold policy while building consensus and creating the connections needed to face the challenges ahead.
She is the oldest daughter of a retired factory welder who spent 32 years as an active member of the United Auto Workers. Labor strife and economic hardship were centerpieces of the Mizeur family experience. Politics and civic engagement were daily topics at the dinner table.
She served for eight years in the House of Delegates. Before her election to the Maryland General Assembly, she served as U.S. Senator John Kerry’s Domestic Policy Director for four years and was the principal architect of his 2004 presidential campaign’s health care reform agenda. She also worked for three Democratic U.S. House members and spent four years as a national advocate for nonprofit community health centers serving the uninsured, rural families, and migrant farm workers.
Mizeur and her wife Deborah have made their forever home on a 34-acre farm outside of Chestertown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The biographical information above was sourced from the candidate’s campaign website, see links above for more information.
