Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey with her Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Early Childhood Alliance.

Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey with Martha Olang, Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year and Sam Gray, President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. Kirkley-Bey received the Presidential Community Service Award and Service to Youth Award from the Boys & Girls Clubs.

Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey (center) giving out Thanksgiving groceries to Hartford residents.

Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey receiving the Connecticut Community Development Association (CCDA) 2011 Legislator of the Year Award for recent work on legislation promoting affordable housing and public housing tenant rights. (From left CCDA President Thomas J. Ivers, Kirkley-Bey, & Hartford Housing and Property Management Division Director Yasha Escalera)

Girls Club of Connecticut Youth of the Year.

Representative Kirkley-Bey presenting $25,000 check to the the Mutual Housing Association of Greater Hartford for the rehabilitation of 4 buildings in the Asylum Hill area of Hartford.

Rep Marie Kirkley-Bey and Daniel Merida, the Executive Director of Sheldon Oak Central during the dedication ceremony for the North End Gateway, 57 apartments located at 1450 Main Street in Hartford.

Rep. Marie Kirkley-Bey took part in the ribbon cutting ceremony for the official opening of the Breakthrough Magnet School in Hartford.

Rep. Kirkley-Bey with Reverend Jesse Jackson and Governor Rowland at the bill signing ceremony making Martin Luther King Day a mandated day off for all municipal and state employees.

Rep. Kirkley-Bey meets with Vice President Gore on a recent visit to Hartford.

Students from the Barnard Brown Elementary School in Hartford Singing the National Anthem on Opening Day of the Legislative Session, February 9, 2000.