Ben Allen

Ben Allen represents the 24th State Senate District, covering the Westside, Hollywood, South Bay and Santa Monica Mountains communities of Los Angeles County, and is running for California Insurance Commissioner. First elected to the State Senate in 2014 and now serving a third term, Allen chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. Allen authored SB 54, legislation to address plastic pollution, and the Voter's Choice Act of 2016. Before the Senate, Allen served as President of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education, lectured at UCLA Law School, and worked as an attorney at Bryan Cave LLP and Richardson & Patel and at the nonprofit Spark Program. While in law school Allen was the voting student member of the University of California Board of Regents. Allen grew up in the district, graduated from Santa Monica High School, and holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and UC Berkeley.