Chenoa Summers is running for State Senate in Arkansas’s 20th district. A Newport Native, she has lived in Jonesboro for over a decade. She has received four degrees – A.S. General Education, A.S. Natural Sciences, B.S. Physics, and M.S. Environmental Science. She is working on a fifth degree at A-State right now – B.S. Biology with emphasis in Botany. She currently works as a student research assistant in a botany lab at A-State. For the past several years, Summers worked in academia as an adjunct instructor of science and the Director of the Student Success Center at UACCB. She returned to undergraduate studies as a student last year.

Most notably in the last six months, she joined the fight against censorship at the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library. She is a member of the CCJPL Friends of the Library, Citizens Defending the Craighead County Library, Craighead County NAACP, Collective Alliance Network, Human Rights Campaign, the Democratic Party of Craighead County, Arkansas State University Young Democrats, NEA Young Professionals, the Arkansas Native Plant Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Arkansas Forestry Association. In her spare time, she is a watercolor artist, plant and animal enthusiast, and musician.