053: State Rep. Ajay Pittmann—governing for future generations
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Freshman Oklahoma State Representative Ajay Pittmann will be in familiar territory when she answered the gavel for the first session of the 57th Oklahoma Legislature. She has been a familiar sight around the capitol building for more than half her 24 years of life. She proudly states that she attended her first legislative conference at age 7. That’s because her mother, former state senator Anastasia Pittmann, and recent Democratic Party nominee for Oklahoma Lt. Governor, would bring Ajay to work with her at the capitol.
But Ajay is definitely her own person, as you will hear in this episode of the Spirit of Leading podcast. I caught up with her on the fifth floor of the House of Representatives wing between sessions, and before the new representatives began moving into their offices. As you will hear, she is optimistic that Oklahoma can begin to make strides toward solving the state’s most perplexing issues in a spirit of bipartisanship.
Comfortable as an advocate in the public arena.
Trying out a desk in the House chamber.
with mother, Anastasia Pittman, who formerlly represented the same House district as Ajay (HD 99)