About Trent

Trent was elected to the Mission City Council in 2019 and has served as chairman of the Community Development Committee and the Finance & Administration Committee during his term. Learn more about the issues Trent supports.

He is originally from rural southeastern Kansas and moved to Mission in 2016 after completing an International Relations master’s degree at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Before grad school, he graduated from the University of Kansas with dual degrees in History and Latin American Studies and previously worked in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He now works as a data analyst at Gap, Inc. In his free time, he enjoys reading and going on runs around Mission. He and his wife Helen are expecting the birth of their first child this spring.