Lori Trahan calls back to her working-class family roots and the opportunities that fueled her career in public service. A Division I volleyball scholarship brought Trahan to Georgetown University, which upon graduation would pave the way to her first job in Congress, working for Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.), eventually becoming his chief of staff. Trahan worked at a technology startup before running for office in 2018 and put that experience to use when she grilled chief executive officers Sundar Pichai of Google and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg about their companies’ efforts to grow their platforms’ user numbers by targeting children.

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