Derek Slap

Derek Slap earned an M.B.A. from the UConn School of Business and bachelor's degrees in broadcast journalism and international relations from Syracuse University. Slap was a news anchor and reporter at NBC Connecticut from 1999 to 2004. He has also worked as Director of Communications for Senate Democrats, Chief of Staff for the Senate Democratic Caucus, and as a lecturer at Sacred Heart University, Yale University and Quinnipiac University, among others. In 2017, he won an ARC Angel Award.[1]

Slap was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in a special election on February 26, 2019. In the 2019 session, he was a member of the Commerce, Higher Education, and Employment Advancement committees and vice-chair of the Human Services Committee. Slap previously represented District 19 in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.[1]

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