Current State Senator for Dist. 1. (2023-present) (Serving the communities of Allen Park (part), Ecorse, Detroit (part), Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, and most of Taylor) Assistant President Pro Tempore of the Michigan State Senate. Former State Senator for Dist. 6. (2019-2022) (Serving the communities of Belleville, Brownstown (part), Flat Rock, Huron Twp., Rockwood, Romulus, Sumpter Twp., Taylor, Van Buren Twp., Westland.) Democratic Caucus Chair. Former State Representative for Michigan House District 12 (Taylor, Romulus and part of Van Buren Twp.) Adjunct Faculty member at WCCCD in the humanities as well as copy editor, proofreader and published author with over 15 years of editing and publishing experience providing private individual and business clients with effective editing and proofreading services. Editing skills include AP, Chicago Manual and other styles working with a variety of small and large documents from ad copy and marketing materials to RFPs, full-length book manuscripts and professional academic articles.