Meet the Candidate
Louisa Conklin
I’m a proud first-time homeowner in Brunswick. I moved to Frederick County because I believe in this place — the farmland, the communities, the way of life.
I'm running because that way of life is under threat. Our county government should protect residents, not fast-track corporate development deals.
"I'm running because that way of life is under threat. Our county government should protect residents, not fast-track corporate development deals."
Louisa Conklin became a first-time homeowner when she moved to Brunswick, MD with her husband in early 2022. She works in the leading trade organization for the biotech industry, overseeing a program that helps scientists and entrepreneurs find the funding and corporate partners they need to turn their medical discoveries into actual treatments. Previously she worked at National Public Radio in business and operational roles, including working on a newly established Change Management team.
Louisa originally moved to the DC Metropolitan area in 2018 to fulfill a lifelong goal of being a riverboat captain. The boat she captained was a historic vessel operated by Living Classrooms, an organization that runs “floating classroom” programs to teach school children and their educators about the Chesapeake Bay.
Prior to seeking office she served as an Associate Member of the Frederick County Democratic Committee; in this position she learned about the various impacts of demographic shifts and population growth in communities across the county. Louisa and her husband attend the Frederick Friends Meeting; she has been a practicing Quaker since childhood. She attended Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, NJ, and graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Philosophy in 2006.
"Her mom organized her neighbors in the 1990s to successfully convince the EPA to clean up a radium-contaminated site on which their homes had been built."
Louisa’s parents’ community activism showed Louisa, at an early age, the power of residents who work together to bring about change in their communities. Similarly, Louisa was inspired to run for County Council after watching the current Council vote to expand the area available for data center development by 1,000 acres, even after their constituents expressed widespread opposition to the expansion. She supported the referendum petition to put this decision to the voters in November, by collecting signatures throughout the county.
