As the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants who fought deportation under the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz’s commitment to public service and sense of justice was instilled at an early age.
Representative Gong-Gershowitz’s father, a veteran, participated in the vanguard of the civil rights movement. Her mother was a leader in the women’s movement, bringing Jennifer with her to march for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.