Who is William Lawrence?

William Lawrence is the Democratic candidate for Michigan's 7th US Representative seat. 

 William Lawrence (born 1990) is an American politician and activist who co-founded the Sunrise Movement. He is a member of the Working Families Party and a former member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He resigned from the Democratic Socialists in July of 2026 less than a month before the primary. Lawrence is also pro-immigration. (condensed from Wikipedia)

In many ways, William Lawrence's career trajectory is a clone of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's. Like Wilson, Lawrence never held a job where he had a boss or worked with customers or had formally scheduled hours to work. 

Sunrise Movement

When Sunrise Movement was launched in 2017, the movement's goal was to be a more confrontational environmental movement and use civil disobedience and protest to achieve their goals.

Working Families Party

The Working Families Party supports raising the minimum wage, expanding public education, universal paid sick leave, Medicare for All, forgiving student debt and increasing the tax rate on people they consider wealthy. They also support the elimination of fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy. 

WFP is one of the organizations that was spawned under the ACORN legal umbrella. ACORN dissolved in 2010 after accusations of an organizational culture that encouraged illegal activities by its daughter organizations.