Madison Gesiotto Gilbert ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Ohio’s 13th congressional district in 2022, losing in the general election. Gesiotto Gilbert was born on March 20, 1992. She was raised in Stark County, Ohio. She attended The Ohio State University, where she earned a degree in political science in 2014. She would then attend law school at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and earn a Juris Doctor degree in 2017. While in law school, she served as a staff editor on the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law as well as a law clerk for the United States Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Gesiotto Gilbert has worked as a small business owner, attorney, and television commentator. She worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns as an advisor to the National Diversity Coalition for Trump and as an ambassador for the America First Policy Institute.