Helga Stevens

Helga Stevens (born 9 August 1968) is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and member of the European Parliament since 2014.

While spending a year in St. Louis, Missouri on a Rotary Scholarship 1987, she visited Gallaudet University and met a deaf attorney who inspired her to continue her studies in law.

In 1993, Stevens returned to the United States and obtained a master's degree at Boalt Hall Law School of the University of California in Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship.

[citation needed] Stevens became politically active and was for the first time a candidate in 1999 for the Belgian Senate on the People's Union list (10th place).

In addition to her committee assignments, Stevens serves as president of the European Parliament's Disabilities Intergroup.