State Representative Samantha Vang (she, her, hers) was elected in 2018 to serve Minnesota House District 40B. Rep. Vang represents the communities of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center where she lives. Rep. Vang currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Property and Local Tax Division. Rep. Vang also serves on the Agriculture and Food Finance, Capital Investment, and Higher Education Finance and Policy Divisions. She is Chair of the state’s first Minnesota Asian Pacific Caucus and champions key policy initiatives to address inequities across the state such as increasing voter accessibility at the polls, improving language access in all sectors of the government, and amplifying voices of communities who have been historically marginalized and divested from.