Chrissy Houlahan
United States Representative, PA-06
The first woman in history to represent Pennsylvania's 6th District in Congress, which encompasses Berks and Chester Counties, Chrissy Houlahan is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Armed Services Committee, where she also serves on the subcommittee on Military Personnel as a ranking member and the subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation.
Houlahan is an Air Force veteran, engineer, entrepreneur and educator. She is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She earned her bachelor’s degree in engineering from Stanford University with an ROTC scholarship that launched her service in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves, and later earned her master’s degree in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She has helped lead several thriving Southeastern Pennsylvania companies including AND1, a basketball apparel company headquartered in Paoli, and B Lab, the organization that launched the B Corporation movement. She served in Teach for America as a chemistry teacher at Simon Gratz High School in North Philadelphia, and then led and scaled a nonprofit that helped thousands of underserved students across America build their literacy skills.
These experiences helped shape her political vision of a great nation united by common values that leaves no one behind. She is committed to fighting for access to quality, affordable health care, common sense gun safety, government accountability and transparency, and working to build a strong, stable economy with good jobs and good benefits for everyone. In addition to her committee assignments, she has taken on several leadership roles, including serving as the co-chair of the bipartisan Paid Family Leave Working Group, bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, and the Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus.
Since serving her community in Congress, she has been awarded the Abraham Lincoln Leadership for America Award and three Congressional Management Foundation Democracy Awards. The Leadership for America award is presented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to honor lawmakers for their work supporting a free enterprise system. The Democracy Awards recognized her outstanding achievement in the categories of transparency and accountability, constituent services, and workplace environment.
