{"id":711,"date":"2026-08-27T03:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/?page_id=711"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:14:23","slug":"memben","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/memben\/","title":{"rendered":"memBen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Ben has spent the past 20 years in leadership; the most recent 8 years on the east coast at Mathnasium as the Senior Regional Director for his organization&#8217;s DMV metro locations.<br><br>He was born into a blue collar, working class union family in Mason City, Iowa, where his dad belonged to the local SteelWorkers Union and his grandpa was the president of the local Railroad Workers Union. Ben is proud to be a community college graduate first, getting his Associates degree at North Iowa Area Community College before moving on to study Journalism and Mass Communications at Iowa State University.<br><br>After college, Ben had the great fortune and opportunity to live in many different and unique communities around the country, including Indianapolis (IN), Honolulu (HI), Minneapolis (MN), and Fairfax (VA) before finding and falling in love with Annapolis in 2021.<br>Ben&#8217;s passion for politics began in 2004 during the first presidential election he could vote in, when he was elected as city, then county, then state delegate for John Edwards in the Iowa caucus. Ben would now describe himself as a passionate progressive Democrat, focused heavily on affordable living, human rights, and civil liberties.<br><br>Ben currently lives in Downtown Annapolis with his cat, Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King. If you don&#8217;t see him working or reading at Old Fox Books, you may just catch him at Greenbury Point or one of the other many amazing walking paths Anne Arundel and Maryland have to offer.<br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben has spent the past 20 years in leadership; the most recent 8 years on the east coast at Mathnasium as the Senior Regional Director for his organization&#8217;s DMV metro locations. He was born into a blue collar, working class union family in Mason City, Iowa, where his dad belonged to the local SteelWorkers Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-711","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolisdems.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}