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布列塔尼·彼得森，06级, U.S. 代表. for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District

Brittany  Pettersen was born in Colorado and grew up in Jefferson County, which she is now proud to represent in Congress. She served in the Colorado legislature for a decade before being elected in 2022 to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. 众议院. She is the first woman to represent this district, 包括杰弗逊, Broomfield, 湖, 公园, 出纳员, 查菲堡, 弗里蒙特和卡斯特县. Pettersen is a member of the House Financial Services Committee, where she serves on the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance and as the vice ranking member of the Subcommittee on National Security, 非法金融, and International Financial Institutions.

在进入国会之前, Pettersen helped pass legislation in Colorado to lower health care costs, 解决阿片类药物流行问题, protect reproductive health care and increase access to affordable child care. She is now working to expand these policies nationwide. She also is leading the fight to improve the nation’s programs to treat mental health and substance-use disorders and crack down on drug trafficking after seeing firsthand the devastating impacts of opioids through her mother’s decades long struggle with addiction.

Through her position on the Financial Services Committee, Pettersen is working to increase consumer protections, improve housing affordability and accessibility, 保持原状.S. at the cutting edge of technological advances and crack down on drug cartels and terrorist organizations that use financial institutions.

Pettersen faced many challenges as an at-risk youth, but access to great public schools and teachers who believed in her helped her become the first in her family to graduate from high school and college. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Metropolitan State University of 丹佛 by waiting tables to put herself through school. Pettersen made the most of the opportunity to build a better life, and she has spent her career fighting to give every Coloradan that same chance.

Pettersen lives in 湖wood with her husband, Ian Silverii; their young son, Davis; and their rescue dog, 奥利.