Steven C. Owens is an American politician serving as a member of the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

from the 29th Middlesex district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 6, 2021.

Early life and education

Ownes was born and raised in

East Greenbush, New York East Greenbush is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Rensselaer County, New York, Rensselaer County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is a suburb of Albany, New York, Albany. The population was 16,473 at the 2010 cen ...

. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science and political science from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1999.

Career

After graduating from college, Owens worked as a software developer in

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. He then worked as a software analyst for Reebie Associates, a subsidiary of

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, from 2002 to 2005. Owens then worked as a consultant for

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in 2012. Owens served as a member of the Watertown Democratic Town Committee for 12 years. He was also a member of the

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and Watertown Transportation Task Force. Owens was elected to the

in November 2020 and assumed office on January 6, 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Owens, Steven Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Watertown, Massachusetts People from East Greenbush, New York Brown University alumni Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives