State Representative
District 51, State of Tennessee
Representative Aftyn Behn is the State House Representative for House District 51 in Nashville. Aftyn is a member of State Connections, the broadband working group for state legislators. Additionally, she is on the steering committee for the Southern Connected Communities Project, which connects rural communities with the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to build resilience by protecting the environment and improving access to equitable public infrastructure.
She is formerly the Campaign Director for RuralOrganizing.org, overseeing the organization's electoral strategy and execution and shaping the political and policy landscape impacting small towns and rural communities with a focus on rural services and public infrastructure. Previously, she worked at the Indivisible Project as the Distributed Organizing Manager, building out national programs, including Indivisible's national rural program, one of the largest in the country. She also supported Indivisible's distributed network in long-term power building as the former senior regional organizer for Kentucky and Tennessee.
Before Indivisible, she organized with the Tennessee Justice Center in 2017 during the national Medicaid and Affordable Care Act congressional fights. In 2016, she consulted with Switzerland's United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), developing community-based protection policies for special-interest refugee groups. Aftyn is from East Tennessee and received her MSW from the University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work, specializing in public policy.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
8:05 AM - 8:10 AM CT