Summer Lee

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Summer Lee

Summer Lee
Summer Lee is an organizer, attorney, a Pennsylvania State Representative, and the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District. Throughout her time in the state legislature, she’s fought for meaningful progress on union jobs and workers’ rights, environmental justice, affordable housing, health care, immigration justice and more. She led an initiative that stopped a corporate fracking proposal and drove the passage of police accountability measures in Harrisburg. She also is co-founder and chair of UNITE, a grassroots group dedicated to building progressive power up and down ballot across Allegheny County and the surrounding areas, electing mayors, county council, judges, and more. If elected to Congress, Summer will be the first Black woman representing the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.