NJ State Senator Andrew Zwicker

What does a state senator do? Andrew speaks about his role being to serve his constituents by creating, supporting, and voting on state legislation. He speaks about how legislation gets created and passed in NJ, moving through the various houses and committees on their way up to the Governor, and how that process can take many years, and that’s not all bad. Andrew Zwicker was elected to the Senate in November 2021 after serving three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly where he was the Chair of the Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee.Senator Zwicker was raised in Englewood, NJ. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Bard College and master’s and doctorate degrees, both in physics, from John Hopkins University.Senator Zwicker has spent his entire professional career at Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory where he currently is the head of the Communications and Public Outreach Department. Senator Zwicker is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and The American Association of Physics Teachers has named him to its list of 75 leading contributors to physics education.