Victoria Steele is a former Democratic member of the

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representing

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from 2019 to 2023. She is a twice elected former Democratic member of the

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, serving District 9 in Tucson from 2013 to 2016. She is a board member of the

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(NOW). In 2019, she began the podcast ''Wait, What? Politics with Zuma and Steele'', co-hosting with journalist Jimmy Zuma. She was elected as a Justice of the Peace in 2022. Prior to entering politics, she had a career in radio and television news. She also created the Native Ways program at The Haven, a substance-use residential treatment program for Indigenous women. As a politician, she was on the board of the National Caucus of the Native American State Legislators. In July 2015, she announced that she would run in the 2nd congressional district of Arizona for the 2016

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, hoping to challenge incumbent

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. She resigned from the Arizona legislature in January 2016 to focus on her congressional race. Steele was endorsed in the Democratic primary by U.S. Representative

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. She is the State Legislative Coordinator for NOW and co-founder of the Tucson NOW Chapter. Steele is of German and Seneca-Cayuga/Mingo heritage, enrolled with the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma.

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External links

Arizona legislature website

Campaign website
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