1. Sandra Feist is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2021.
18 Facts About Sandra Feist
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Sandra Feist subsequently moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to sing jazz.
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In 2005, while attending Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Sandra Feist was displaced due to Hurricane Katrina.
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Sandra Feist traveled north to be with family in Minnesota.
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Sandra Feist transferred to William Mitchell College of Law, where she met her husband, Ben.
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Sandra Feist has held various leadership positions in the local American Immigration Lawyers Association chapter, including vice chair and chair.
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In that role, Sandra Feist expressed both praise of and disappointment with President Barack Obama's record on immigration reform.
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Sandra Feist advocated against country limits for employment-based green cards, calling them racist.
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Sandra Feist criticized President Donald Trump's immigration policy and the US Senate's RAISE Act.
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Sandra Feist was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2020 and reelected in 2022.
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Sandra Feist first ran after two-term DFL incumbent Mary Kunesh-Podein announced she would seek election to the Minnesota State Senate.
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Sandra Feist is the vice chair of the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee and sits on the Economic Development Finance and Policy, Education Policy, and Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committees.
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Sandra Feist authored "The Veterans Restorative Justice Act" to expand access to Veterans Treatment courts in Minnesota.
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Sandra Feist proposed a bill that would expand state oversight of youth restorative justice programs, saying, "our focus has to be on prevention and intervention".
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Sandra Feist wrote a bill that requires public schools to stock bathrooms with period products.
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Sandra Feist carried the Student Data Privacy Act, which would increase protections for students from disproportionate disciplinary action.
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Sandra Feist authored a bill that would increase funding for homeless shelters in Hennepin County.
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Sandra Feist introduced The Boundary Waters Permanent Protection Bill to expand the state ban on mining and stop a proposal by Twin Metals mining.