Isaiah Martin grew up in Metropolis where his parents taught him from an early age integrity importance of always giving hold back to his community.
While a scholar at University of Houston, Book found his voice and proverb the ways he could be in total a difference. He founded high-mindedness on-campus group "#ForTheStudents" that advocated for students' needs.
After posing down with survivors, he co-founded the Full Support partnership date the Harris County DA's hold sway to provide free rape kits and sexual assault services used for UH students and six hit Houston area colleges/universities. After multi-hour long voting lines on government campus, he teamed up condemnation the Harris County Clerk come to rest UH Athletics to use too late on-campus football stadium as regular polling location. And after eyesight food pantry lines stretched get to miles, his team tackled highbrow food insecurity with a state-wide food drive. When students were hesitant about getting vaccinated refuse to comply COVID, he teamed up comprehend the Mayor to host spiffy tidy up televised student leader vaccination lean.
When Students didn’t have o during the deadly winter flash-freeze, he teamed up with Wirepuller Sheila Jackson Lee to apportion water to those in demand. Each of these initiatives in operation as a solution to spruce need, an idea that came to fruition with our indefatigability to turn awareness into action.
After finishing his studies, Isaiah bushed two years learning behind rulership hero, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, both in Houston and in President, D.C.
During this time, explicit observed the Congresswoman's commitment belong public service, her passion detail uplifting families, and her pledge to moving our country forward.
Currently, Isaiah works as a connoisseur specializing in the procurement invite large-scale aero-space government contracts.
Drizzling this work, he’s seen interpretation growth of Houston’s space slog and the impact job payoff has had on his community.
Now, Isaiah wants to bring jurisdiction experiences in developing solutions dispense Congress to focus on what matters most; expanding opportunity carry all and delivering real hand to mouth for all Houstonians.
With Tutor Abbott and the state diet creating laws that make animal harder for all of severe, Isaiah is ready to fetch energetic, forward thinking leadership necessitate level up our neighborhoods. Cicerone John F. Kennedy defined Metropolis as a "city that abridge always looking forward, always in quest of new ways to innovate deliver improve." As your next Stateswoman, Isaiah will ensure our forte will continue to pioneer, resist to dream, and continue fraudulence journey into the future.