Chrissy Houlahan

Chrissy Houlahan's parents met when her father and grandfather were flying in the same Navy squadron.¹ She grew up in a military family and is a daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors.¹ She met her future husband, Bart, during their first week at Stanford.²

She earned an engineering degree at Stanford with an ROTC scholarship, served in the Air Force and Reserves, and later earned a technology and policy master's degree at MIT.¹ As an undergraduate, she traveled to San José State for ROTC training alongside her Stanford engineering classes.² She held leadership roles at AND1 and B Lab before teaching chemistry at Simon Gratz High School through Teach for America.¹

Elected in 2018, she became the first woman to represent the Sixth District.² She serves on Armed Services and Intelligence and leads Democrats on the Military Personnel Subcommittee.³ She helped lead the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, signed into law in October 2022 to authorize USAID efforts against malnutrition overseas.⁴

Her stated priorities include affordable healthcare, gun safety and government transparency.¹ She also helps lead the bipartisan Paid Family Leave Working Group, which examines federal ways to expand access to paid leave.³ She seeks another term representing Chester and southeastern Berks counties against Republican restructuring executive Marty Young.⁵