Senate Member

State Representative Mitzi Epstein represents our community full time, with a caring, collaborative, positive approach. She is a computer systems analyst who has worked for multi-national companies including Olin Brass, and Citicorp. She owns a very small business called Custom Language Training which provides teachers and consultants to help businesses communicate.

Public education, and advocating for children are at the heart of Mitzi's vocation. She has co-founded local and statewide coalitions of parents, teachers, retirees, and business leaders to advocate for high quality public education. She was elected to the Kyrene School Board in 2004 and served through 2008. After that, the AZ State PTA asked Mitzi to be their Legislative Issues Chair, and then elected her as Vice President.

She was first elected to the Arizona Legislature in 2016, and was re-elected in 2018 and 2020. She is the Ranking Member on the Ways and Means Committee, and also serves on the Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Committee, where her analytical and business skills are an asset to the teamwork in the House of Representatives.

In 2017, she established the "Neighbors Council" an open, public group that meets monthly or as needed to work on solving problems and making opportunities for the people of Arizona.

Rep. Mitzi Epstein has had success working on complex problems to find solutions that work.

• In response to rising teen suicide rates, Epstein’s Neighbors Council has worked on suicide prevention:
• A full-time statewide Suicide Prevention Coordinator has been added in the budget.
• Jake’s Law requires health insurance companies to pay for mental healthcare in parity with physical healthcare – lifesaving help for families in times of health crisis.
• Family Caregiver Grants help pay for modifications like wheelchair ramps to help elders stay in their homes, and not need to move.
• Unemployment Insurance reforms in 2021 improved benefits for claimants and kept employers’ tax rates at or below 2019 levels. UI is a vital economic tool to slow job layoffs, especially in a recession, thus helping all businesses as well as workers.
• She has worked with state agencies for improvements in their operations that help the people they serve: taxpayers, families, small businesses, consumers, etcetera.

Rep. Epstein stands on the principle that every solution is better when it is developed with a wide range of perspectives at the table.