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Rick Chester Krajewski (born June 21, 1991) is an American politician who currently serves in the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...
representing the 188th legislative district. A member of the
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and the
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, Krajewski was first elected during the
2020 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election The 2020 elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was held on November 3, 2020, with all districts being decided. The term of office for those that were elected in 2020 began when the House of Representatives convened in January ...
, when he primaried incumbent Democrat Jim Roebuck. Krajewski graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universit ...
with a degree in engineering in 2013. Prior to being elected to the state house he worked as a
software developer Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development inv ...
, leaving that job in order to work full-time as an activist. Krajewski is active in the organization and field campaigning of the
progressive Progressive may refer to: Politics * Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform ** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy pa ...
activist group
Reclaim Philadelphia Reclaim Philadelphia is an American progressive activist group based in the city of Philadelphia. Strongly associated with the 501c4 group Pennsylvania Stands Up, Reclaim was founded out of the structures created by the Bernie Sanders 2016 preside ...
.


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List of Democratic Socialists of America who have held office in the United States The following American politicians are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and have held elected or appointed office in the United States. The DSA is a political nonprofit organization and not a political party, therefore DSA m ...


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1991 births Living people American software engineers Members of the Democratic Socialists of America from Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania socialists 21st-century American legislators 21st-century Pennsylvania politicians {{Pennsylvania-PARepresentative-stub