Meet Steven

In my job I help lower-income people legally pass down their home after someone has died. Unfortunately, my clients encounter needless barriers to getting what is rightfully theirs because there are so many laws that don’t make sense. What's worse is that these laws disproportionately harm low-income people. I have spent time advocating for better, more just laws but I beleive that, because of my legal experience, I am particularly equipped to write better laws that work and that work for everyone.

Before law school, I served as a teacher at Forest Park High School. Just to give you an idea of my experience, when I was a teacher the students in my school were 99% low-income, 99% racial minorities, 86% chronically absent and 1% proficient in math. My biggest take-away was that the bad educational outcomes are not primarily the student's fault, or the parent's fault, or the teacher's. The system itself crumbles under the weight it’s given to bear. City Schools needs a lot of help, including more funding.

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.