Occupation / Current Position
Physician/Troy City Council/Self Employed
Education
Medical Degree
Qualifications and Experience
Troy City Council since 2019, Troy Nature Society-Former Board Member, LCSA-Board Member, Troy ERS and RHC-Board Member
Michigan's education system has real strengths, but we are not living up to our potential and our kids are paying the price. Literacy outcomes remain low, funding is unevenly distributed, and our teacher pipeline is thinning.
My first priority is fully implementing Michigan's 2024 literacy and dyslexia screening laws. Those laws don't take effect until 2027-28, and the gap between passage and implementation is where kids get lost. I'll also fight for equitable funding and competitive teacher pay.
Affordability is the throughline of everything I'm running on. Michigan families are working hard and still falling behind. I support raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation, boosting the Working Families Tax Credit to make child care accessible, expanding the Homestead Property Tax Credit, lowering prescription drug costs, and fighting for first-time homebuyer incentives. As a physician and mother of three, I know these aren't separate issues. When families can't make ends meet, their health suffers, and their children's outcomes suffer. This is an economic strategy Michigan cannot afford to keep putting off.
Michigan must lead on energy in a way that works for families, not just utilities. I support a clean energy transition that is responsible and affordable, because rate increases that squeeze working families are not progress.
Reliability means investing in modern grid infrastructure. Environmental protection means holding polluters accountable and ensuring vulnerable communities aren't bearing a disproportionate burden. Affordability means keeping families at the center of every energy decision.
As a physician, I see clean energy as not just an environmental issue; it's a public health issue I'll fight for in Lansing.
Constitutional rights are not conditional. Due process, free speech, and protection against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to every person on Michigan soil, regardless of citizenship status. When we carve out exceptions based on where someone was born, we undermine the framework that protects all of us.
I would support legislation that limits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement absent a judicial warrant, strengthens state-level search-and-seizure protections, and ensures every person has meaningful access to due process. Michigan should lead by example, and I will fight to make sure it does.
Occupation / Current Position
State Senator
Education
BA in International Relations from Michigan State University
Qualifications and Experience
State Senator, former State Representative, former Rochester Hills City Councilman. Licensed P&C Insurance agent since 2010.
Michigan’s education system is not delivering the results our students deserve. Despite increased spending, Michigan ranks near the bottom nationally in education outcomes. Three out of four students are not reading at grade level or proficient in math.
Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their ZIP code. That starts with making sure students can read proficiently by the end of third grade, because reading is the foundation for success in every other subject. I support a read-by-third-grade guarantee and ensuring teachers have access to proven, science-based literacy training and curriculum.
As your state senator, I’ve supported efforts to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security income, end surprise medical billing, expand access to early childhood education and increase affordable childcare options for working families. I’ve also supported programs such as Going PRO and the Michigan Achievement Scholarship to help students and workers gain the skills they need to succeed in today’s economy.
I’ll keep working to reduce the tax burden, remove unnecessary red tape that drives up housing costs and repeal costly mandates that increase utility bills.
I support an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear power and other reliable sources. We should continue investing in grid modernization, encourage innovation and ensure dependable power is available when families need it most.
The energy mandates adopted in 2023 require Michigan to begin phasing out natural gas and rely entirely on “green” energy sources, such as wind and solar, by 2040. These mandates threaten grid reliability and are expected to increase our energy bills by more than $2,700 a year. I support the repeal of this costly mandate.
Due process, free speech and protections against unreasonable government intrusion are core American values, and government has a responsibility to respect those rights.
At the same time, we must take border security and immigration enforcement seriously. That means enforcing the law, preventing crime and ensuring the legal immigration process works as intended.
While immigration policy is primarily a federal responsibility, our laws should be enforced in a manner consistent with the Constitution and the principles that have guided our country for generations.
Occupation / Current Position
Journeyman Electrician
Education
Detroit EITC
The way things are run currently creates two connected sets of victims: the students and those who work in our schools.
Those school workers are entrusted to educate, feed, and develop the next generation as well as run and maintain the schools. They are expected to do all of this work with limited funding in working-class school districts! Most are paid next to nothing to perform some of the most important jobs in our society. The adverse conditions these workers are put under are the same ones students are expected to learn under. A lack of support for our schools directly affects the quality of education our students can expect.
Every person who is willing and able to work should be entitled to a job. That job, no matter what it is, should provide that person with a living wage for themselves and their family without requiring more than a 40-hour workweek.
Businesses and corporations are harvesting immense profits from their workers by not properly compensating them. Instead, some are being rewarded with layoffs, while others are pushed to work overwhelming amounts of overtime. There is enough work to go around and plenty of money to pay us properly!
Many sources of energy, like coal and oil, produce harmful pollutants when used. Whether that trade-off is worth it or not is currently out of the hands of those whom it affects most: the working class. Instead, the fate of the whole world is in the hands of a few who can avoid the worst of the consequences. How we move away from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy is an important decision that the majority should make, not the wealthy few.
Immigrants are entitled to those rights as much as anyone else.
Immigrant workers are workers first and foremost. Those in power endeavor to turn different parts of the working class against each other for their own gain. It’s a trick meant to pull the wool over our eyes. They use our own identities – Black, Latino, Asian, White, immigrant, native-born – in an attempt to divide us.
We are all working class! And an assault on one part of the working class is an attack aimed at the entire working class.
An injury to one is an injury to all!
Occupation / Current Position
Attorney and Small Business Owner
Education
J.D.
Qualifications and Experience
Husband, Dad, Attorney, CFPB, Global Troy Advisory Committee (Troy), Tax Assessments Committee (Fraser), Certified Mediator, Licensed Real Estate Agent, Small Business Owner, PTO Member, Volunteer.
Michigan's education system needs significant improvement. Many national rankings have Michigan among the bottom ten states for education, and our average starting teacher salary remains well below the national average. I support serious investment in both students and educators, including efforts to recruit and retain qualified teachers. I am not in favor of teaching to the test; overreliance on standardized testing can narrow the curriculum and prioritize test preparation over meaningful learning. Families know their children best, so I also support educational options, including tax credits for families who choose private or homeschooling.
Wages aren't keeping pace with the real costs of living, including housing, tuition, insurance, childcare, food and other necessities. Since 2010, Michigan home prices have risen 78% while incomes have risen only 50%. Unlike many market-driven prices, wages don't automatically rise with those costs.
I support raising Michigan's minimum wage so that pay keeps better pace with the cost of living. I also support job-training programs, but training alone isn't enough. We need incentives for companies to locate, expand, and stay in Michigan, or we risk training workers only to watch them leave for jobs in other states.
Climate change is measurable, not partisan. Its effects on health, infrastructure, agriculture and our economy are real. Recent EPA rollbacks aren't doing Michiganders any favors, either. I support practical, evidence-based standards that reduce harmful emissions and protect Michigan's air, water and natural resources.
Reliability and affordability matter just as much. Families shouldn't shoulder rising costs without a real plan. That means investing now in cleaner energy technologies and grid modernization to keep rates stable and Michigan economically competitive, rather than delaying the transition and paying more for it later.
My legal experience reinforces my belief that everyone within our borders is entitled to due process, free speech, and protection from unreasonable searches. These constitutional rights apply regardless of immigration status.
I support strong, secure borders, but I also believe nonviolent immigrants without documentation should be treated with civility and humanity, especially those who willingly participate in immigration hearings and proceedings. People who have lived here for years, contributed to our economy, and stayed out of legal trouble deserve a fair, earned path to citizenship rather than indefinite limbo sometimes lasting decades.
