Occupation / Current Position
IT technician and licensed chauffeur
Education
A.A.S. in Computer Programming, Delta College, 2019
Qualifications and Experience
I've worked as a grocery clerk, IT technician, construction laborer, photographer, and licensed chauffeur. I grew up on my family's old dairy farm in Fostoria, and I do my own maintenance on my car.
School funding and education is one of my five priorities. As a school photographer, I worked all over mid-Michigan, and I saw well-funded schools with poor teaching and underfunded schools with great teachers. Funding matters, but supporting and retaining good teachers matters just as much. I'd push to reform public school funding so it's stable, predictable, and fair, with money following actual student need, and I'd back stronger pipelines into teaching and working conditions that keep good teachers in the classroom. I'd rather say "I don't know yet, but I'll research and get back to you" than guess, and that goes for testing policy too.
Affordability is a big part of why I'm running. Michigan drivers unjustly pay some of the highest car insurance rates in the country, and sky high healthcare costs squeeze families and small businesses alike. I'd also push for workforce development, including getting CTE and skilled trades programs into more schools, so people can earn a good living without leaving the district. My nephew earned a welding certificate in high school and made well over $20 per hour straight out of school. That should be the modern model, not the exception. I also support paid sick and family leave because one bad week shouldn't cost somebody their footing.
I support Michigan's goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2040, and I also support local control on siting. Communities shouldn't have projects forced on them despite their own zoning decisions, which is why I oppose the 2023 preemption law. I support solar, but not when it's shoved down a community's throat, and a data center without local support and real benefit for its neighbors has no place there. I'd defend the MPSC's new data center protections so large users pay for the capacity they demand instead of pushing them onto households, and I'd scrutinize rate hike requests. Reliability starts with properly maintaining the grid we have.
I strongly support due process and the First and Fourth Amendments, and those protections apply to every person in Michigan, citizen or not. That isn't a new policy I'm offering, it's what the Constitution already guarantees with its own wording. Due process means the government has to follow fair rules before it acts against any person. Anyone here following the law should be able to live without fear, and there should be a clear, legal path for working towards a better life. Immigration policy is set federally, not in Lansing, but at the state level I'd make sure Michigan's own laws and agencies apply these rights to everyone equally.
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