Sabrina Sojourner

Sojourner was born in Texas but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1976, Sojourner received a bachelor's degree in technical theater and Black theater history from University of California, Santa Barbara and a master's degree in transformative leadership and social change from Maryland University of Integrative Health. She briefly attended law school in the early 1980s. ==Political history==

Sojourner first considered running for public office shortly after meeting Harvey Milk in the late 1970s. Sojourner's main duty as D.C.'s sole Shadow Representative was to lobby congress in passing full federal representation for the District, citing the Tennessee Plan as evidence to elevate the status of D.C.'s citizens. In 1994 and 1998, she received the Bayard Rustin Political Activism Award from the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. ==Personal life==

Sojourner is an open member of the LGBT community, who came out in 1976. Sojourner also served as an author and poet, writing a poetry collection titled Psychic Scars and Other Mad Thoughts. Sojourner is Jewish and is a chaplain and hazzan who serves as the spiritual leader at an independent living community and serves unaffiliated Jewish families in the greater Washington, D.C. area, "presiding at interfaith marriages and other ceremonies that more traditional clergy may refuse." She received training at the Davvenen' Leadership Training Institute, part of the Jewish Renewal movement. She lives in Rockville, MD. ==Electoral history==