Sydney Kamlager-Dove

Sydney Kamlager-Dove is the U.S. Representative for California’s 37th District, a position she has held since 2023. She serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as the ranking member of the Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, and on the Judiciary Committee. She is the Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus and Policy Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Before Congress, she served in the California State Senate and Assembly, and on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. She previously worked for Rebuild LA and the Los Angeles Festival, two nonprofits focused on job creation and public arts after the 1992 riots.^{1, 2, 3}

In 2026, she helped secure nearly $3 million in federal Community Project Funding for affordable housing and transit improvements in Los Angeles, including $2.5 million to expand the affordable housing supply.⁴ She introduced the Stop ICE’s Medical Neglect Act of 2026 to require reporting and investigation of medical neglect in ICE detention facilities, and the Pregnant Women in Custody Act to establish standards for prenatal and postpartum care in federal custody.⁵ She reintroduced bipartisan bills to expand Medicaid eligibility for former foster youth and to remove barriers to higher education for homeless and foster youth.⁶ Her office says she helped secure the release of a constituent detained in Venezuela and passed the GRATEFUL Act, which helps locally employed U.S. embassy staff immigrate.² She opposed a $200 billion funding request for the Iran war, saying it was already costing over $1 billion per day.⁷ She also called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.⁸ She introduced articles of impeachment against the White House budget director for canceling federal funding to Democratic states.⁹