Meet Steven

In my job, I help lower-income people legally pass down their home after someone has died. My clients encounter so many needless barriers. There are so many laws that don’t make sense and they disproportionately harm low-income people. 

I used to think that the legislators just need better information so they can make better laws, but I’m increasingly feeling that legislators often make bad laws even when they have access to the right information. It could be that they listen to the wrong people, they don’t have a grasp of how the whole system works or they put politics over policy, which I won't do. I’m running because we need laws that work and that work for everyone.

I believe that God made every human in his image, which means that every person must be respected and treated with dignity. The law must always respect the value of human life and protect the vulnerable.

I believe that Jesus gave up his life to save me. Jesus calls me to love others as he has loved me.

I've only lived in lower-income neighborhoods during my 10 years living in Baltimore City. I find needles when I take my kids to the park. There are vacant houses on my block. People have been shot very close to my home. I'm not saying I can fix addiction, vacant housing or gun violence. These are big, complicated problems and the solutions need to be big and complicated. But, these are issues that I care about and am more equipped to solve than other politicians because I live here.