Cori Bush

Congresswoman Cori Bush represented Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2021-2025 (117th-118th Congresses). When she joined Congress in 2021, Bush became the first Black woman and first nurse to represent Missouri; the first woman to represent her district; and the first activist from the Black Lives Matter movement elected to Congress. Bush has served her community for more than a decade as a nurse, clergy, and childcare worker. A relentless advocate for the unhoused community in St. Louis, Bush spent years as a community organizer providing services and aid to her unhoused neighbors in her district. Bush captured national attention for her high-profile activism after sleeping on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for several days to protest a lapse in the federal eviction moratorium amid the coronavirus pandemic. While in Congress, Bush served on the House Judiciary Committee and House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Bush studied at Harris-Stowe State University before receiving a nursing degree from the Lutheran School of Nursing.