Ian was elected in November 2012 to represent California's 57th Assembly District, becoming the first millennial elected to the State Legislature. A product of the 57th District, prior to his election to the Assembly Ian worked as a field representative for the Legislature, which allowed him to assist residents in his community to navigate state and local government.

In March 2016, Ian became the youngest Majority Leader in the history of the state of California. As Majority Leader, Ian has led the Assembly to pass landmark legislation, such as raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He is particularly proud of legislation he authored that allows terminally ill Californians to attempt experimental treatments to try to save their own lives.

Ian currently serves as the Chair of the Select Committee on Youth and California’s Future and Co-Chair of the Legislative Technology and Innovation Caucus. He is a member of the Insurance Committee, Appropriations Committee, Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, and the Elections and Redistricting Committee. In recognition of his work to foster innovation in California, Ian was named Legislator of the Year by TechNet in 2015, as well as the 2016 CompTia California Tech Champion. A champion of arts education, Ian received the California Association of Museums’ 2015 President’s Award and was named a Legislative Arts Champion by Californians for the Arts.

Ian graduated from California State University Long Beach, where he earned a degree in Political Science with a minor in Communication. He resides in Whittier with his wife, Elise, and their daughter, Charlie.

I have been the proud wife of a veteran for over twenty years and we have five grown children. We have resided in Southern California for all of those years and have been devoted members of our church.  During that time, I homeschooled our two youngest children and later become a substitute teacher for our local public school district. Prior to that, I have worked for feeral, and pritvate institutions.  Also duringthat time, I obtained a Juris Doctorate and will have completed a Master's degree in International Human Rights Law in May.  

Over the last twenty years, I have traveled extensively,visting both Asia and Europe for missionalry as well as legal conferences in France, Cambodia, Ukraine.  The experience gained through that travel has strengthened and hardened my resolve to protect our nation and citizenry from the threat of globalism.  

My desire is to serve the citizens of California by protecting their rights, enabling them to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My political philosophy is grounded on the original intent of the framers of the Declaration of Independance and the United States Constitution.  Those documents have guaranteed and protected the freedoms of our citizens for nearly 250 years by setting up a government and legal system that is not easily toppled by the blowing winds of persuasive politicians that would tyrannize our citizens.  

Our nation was meant to enable citizens to pursue their dreams, whether it was through education or entrepreneurship.  In order to be effective, individuals should be hindered as little as possible through taxation and regulation, freeing them to employ and expand, bringing greater wealth and growing the middle class.  Without a thrving middle class, more people fall into poverty and become slaves to a state run bureacracy. 

The people of our state and country should be allowed their liberty so long as it does not infring upon the rights of others.  Currently, our rights as citizens are under attack from a liberal and misguided legislature that is taking a larger and larger portion of the income of its citizens to give to those who are not citizens and who are an economic liability. 

First and foremost, our nation was created to protect its citizens' rights which includes the right to bear arms, the right of the exercise of their religion and the exercise of free speech.  In an atmosphere of political correctiness, the mouths of those who can speak plainly about protecting the morality of our youth is in jeopardy. Our historical monuments are being torn down in an atmosphere of intolerance towards the original spiritual foundations that allowed our nation to be birthed.  The deconstruction of our civil and spiritual foundations must be protected from those who seek by onerous regulation and tyrannical laws to supplant a history and culture of people that came together because of the principles that it represents.  Americans come from many different ethnicities and the only thing that truly binds us together is the respect for our founding documents.  We are at a crucial time in our history, more so than at any other time and it is imperative, that if our nation's citizens wish to remain free, that we protect the freedoms and rights from assault.