Rebecca Kislak

Representative Rebecca Kislak (D) was first elected to represent District 4 in Providence in November 2018. She is the second vice chair of the House Education Committee and is a member of the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee, the House Health and Human Services Committee, and the House Innovation and Technology Committee. Representative Kislak has been an outspoken supporter of Providence's public schools, and works to advance health equity, economic justice, and the environment. She successfully advocated for the Rhode Island Parentage Act , legislation that made Rhode Island law more inclusive to recognize the many ways people become families, and sponsored a subsequent streamlining of adoption laws to better protect families with children born through assisted reproduction. In 2024, she sponsored a law to give families more control over changes in individualized education plans (IEPs) and set in motion an overhaul of regulations governing the IEP process. She was the sponsor of the law that created a permanent commission to promote and continually improve genocide and Holocaust education in schools. She has backed several laws to protect Rhode Islanders'…