Gwen Moore

Gwen Moore was the eighth of nine children in a Milwaukee family, with a father who worked in a union factory job and a mother who taught in public schools.¹ She attended Marquette as a single mother receiving public assistance, completing her political science degree with help from the federal TRIO program.¹

Her early community work included helping establish a credit union as a VISTA volunteer.¹ She later served in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate before winning election to Congress in 2004, becoming Wisconsin's first Black member of Congress.¹ Moore has three children and is also a grandmother and great grandmother.¹

She serves on the Ways and Means Committee, with work covering taxation, Social Security and programs for families.¹ Her congressional agenda has included maternal health, domestic violence prevention, affordable housing and opposition to restrictions on reproductive care.¹

Moore has long supported nutrition assistance and efforts to improve the quality of meals available through federal child nutrition programs.² Her antipoverty proposals have also emphasized access to child care so parents can work, educational opportunities and assistance for people escaping domestic violence.² She faces Republican Tim Rogers and independent Arthur Burks on the November ballot for Wisconsin's 4th District.³