Reba Hawkins

Reba Hawkins was born in Washington, D.C. Hawkins earned an undergraduate degree in business administration from Morgan State University.[1] Her career experience includes working as the CEO of R&E Green Janitorial.[1][2]

Reba Hawkins did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.

Reba Hawkins did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a Business Entrepreneur with 200 Employees. I believe in creating opportunities for the disenfranchised. I employee Disabled & Homeless Veterans, Youth and Returning Citizens from Prison. I have over 30 years of Community Organizing/ Activism advocating for All Maryland Citizens and Communities. I want to change the trajectory of the district, while being a true voice for the people.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

A COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan Must be Implemented to provide funding to create & incentivize American Manufacturing for Industrial & Agricultural business both large & small. Our Citizens Need Job Creation with Higher than Minimum WagesFiscal Accountability & Oversight of Federal Dollars Earmarked to the 3rd District is Critical!Healthcare Reform is A High Priority

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I've spent over 30 years Advocating for Veterans, Education Reform, Environmental Justice, Criminal Justice & Prison Reform, Inclusive Economic Justice, Housing Reform, Seniors, Youth and Individuals With Mental Health Needs & substance Abuse

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

My Biological Father born in Tuscaloosa Alabama that is in Heaven! Was God Given!He inspired my interest in being an Entrepreneur, Farming, Loving Everyone As Humans and Treating Everyone with Respect! He Also Told Me Never Give Up! Keep Pushing & If It' s An Injustice To One, It's An Injustice To Us All!

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America because he could see America's greatness and potential in the early republic period, and many of his observations proved prophetic. Also he produced one of the first works that could be called Sociology and Political Science.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Ethics, Integrity & Empathy

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Honesty, Ethics, Integrity and Empathy and A Passionate Fighter For Justice

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

To Take Care Of Their Constituents

What legacy would you like to leave?

To Let Everyone Know I Had A Heart To Help All People

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

1985 I participated in my High School Class American Government Field Trip To Capitol Hill, to witness the Senate Hearings of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Bill. It was so inspiring it planted the seed and my interest in Politics at 16 Years of Age.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

First Job was a Youth Summer Program working for the Department of Housing & Urban Development Accounting Department in Washington D.C.

What is your favorite book? Why?

The Bible Because it has Everything I Need To Know in Life

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Wonder Woman

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

People Judging a Book By Its Cover Being An African American Female in Mostly Male Dominated Fields/ Industries

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

It Is The Embodiment of the Founders Idea of Representative Democracy

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

No! I Feel That The Representatives Need To Be Able To Voice The Opinions and Needs Of The People By Being Knowledgeable of Their Issues and Concerns To Be Effective

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Fiscal Accountability/ Fiscal Sovereignty, The Health of Our Nation/Economy and The Environment

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

Agriculture, Appropriations, Oversight and Reform, Veteran Affairs, Transportation Infrastructure, Ethics and Ways and Means

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

No

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Term Limits Should be Enacted! For Example: Two Four Year Terms

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

John Mc Cain

Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?

I've heard many stories on this campaign trail about how constituents reached out to Officials in Office once Elected and never got any help but a lot of run around

Campaign website

Economic Growth

My economic agenda is to promote local, regional, and international trade. I aim to:

Encourage forging durable ties between regional trading cities

Lobby Congressional colleagues and federal bureaucracy in partnership with local leaders to combat fraud, waste, abuse, and undue taxation and regulation.

Defend the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

Promote legislation that creates loan funds and other fiscalmechanisms to help small businesses.

Provide a bully pulpit for constituents seeking Title 3 funds, Department of Defense procurement, and aid entities that seek funds, contracts,and/or grants from the Department of Commerce, Health and Human Services,Department of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and other government agencies.

Act as a booster for cultural, transportation, commercial, and industrial,infrastructure projects in the District.

Encourage microcredit initiatives and international trade among the mosaic of ethnic businesspersons in Maryland.

Lobby the diplomatic community,international businesses, and corporations to locate in the 7th Congressional District.

The American Family

I strongly support the American family, and I am committed to being a resource both moral and otherwise to assisting those raising our future generations. The family is the foundation and watershed of our society. I will endeavor to support, sponsor, co-sponsor, and/or endorse any meaningful policy, law, bill, regulation, or organization that seeks to help strengthen the family unit. Families are the protective covering for the young. I support the rights of mothers and their crucial role as the nation’s premier social engineers, and anyone looking to help married or unmarried and/or foster/adoptive mothers and fathers succeed in raising children will find me to be an ally.

My passion for the family is inclusive of the unborn, children not of majority, and that of seniors who are treasures that must be cared for and about.I will be a strong advocate for protecting the family from tyrannical laws that threaten the moral fabric of the traditional family wherein radical social policies have been ratified without extensive public debate and inclusive hearings where all perspectives are heard. Second, I will be an advocate for the rights of vulnerable children whether they are in Child and Family Services or victims of abuse or sexual trafficking. Last, we must endeavor to protect the rights of divorced or separated fathers.

Foreign Policy

My vision of America’s foreign policy is compassionate non-interventionist that emphasizes and relies on soft power and mutually beneficial trade.

I believe that America must eschew unnecessary foreign entanglements and avoid going to war in the global south. America’s greatest and most enduring power is vested the areas of trade, commerce, culture, and shared development with friendly nations. Furthermore, America must have an integrated approach to conducting foreign relations deploying its tapestry of many peoples to build ties to the their ancestral regions that will great help America maintain its security and vital trade links internationally.

Access to Education

I believe that having access to a quality education is a human right that too many Americans suffer from the lack thereof. We must improve the quality of public education, and the problem is not lack of money, but, rather, inefficiency, opacity, corruption, classism, prejudice, and bias against those from low-income backgrounds. Every child should have access to having music, art, humanities, science and mathematics, and travel coupled with committed and courageous teachers committed to service. Further, I believe in school choice, in the incalculable value of parochial schools, in the importance of women’s colleges and universities, I am very fond of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. We must strive to make sure that public schools are not conduits to prisons, addiction, petty crime, early death, mediocrity, and despair.

​Our Maryland state university system must allocate resources amongst its campuses equality with charity and liberality for all. Finally, the sheer weight student loan debt is an impediment to many of best-trained, most ambitious entrepreneurs, and brightest minds, and we must allow the younger generations to take their place so they can start families, buy homes, start businesses, and care for their elders. I support a practical debt amnesty or amortization plan for a sweat equity for debt swap wherein student loan in within a 5 to 7 year period. If we bailed out Wall Street for trillions of dollars, then we can bail out our young people who represent our nation’s future.

Social Impact

I will work diligently with state, municipal, local, community,faith-based, public, and private stakeholders to promote the general welfare of our constituents.

I will:

Promote the arts and all possible manner of cultural flowering

Encourage ecologically-responsible development and education

Encourage and promote the distinctive offerings of our region to the world via tourism and cultural exchanges, actively promote

Preserve the uniqueness of our history and gastronomy and our local lore, legends, and leaders.[5]

—Reba Hawkins' 2020 campaign website[6]