Age
45
Education
BBA in Marketing (Advertising concentration), Georgia State University; E-RYT 500, YACEP, and TCTSY-F yoga and trauma-sensitive movement certifications
Work experience
Full-time business owner and community builder since 2017, including founding Grow and Flow in 2021; 4 years in Start-Up Tech; 5 years as Account Director at a Marketing/Advertising Agency; 8 years in Healthcare - always focused on meeting people where they are and helping them grow
Phone Number
423-436-9446
District 23 faces three connected challenges: affordability, health care access, and keeping our talent home. Rural families already drive an hour for basic care, and federal Medicaid cuts from the OBBB put more of our local services at risk of cuts or closure. Wages haven't kept pace with housing and grocery costs, and job opportunities are limited. And even when our brightest students leave for college, we haven't built enough reason for them to come back. Guidance counselors and families often frame success as leaving here for good. I want to change that.
I think of government like building a house: the Federal government is the foundation, the state government is the framing. Right now, the state overreaches into personal choices, whether that's medical decisions, healthcare, or family, instead of building a strong frame for opportunity. If elected, I'll work to protect rural health access as federal cuts hit our local facilities, push policies that lower real costs like housing and child care, and invest in local job creation so young people have a reason to stay or come back. Legislators should build the frame, not dictate how people live inside it.
The legislature should stop chasing culture war fights and focus on what actually affects our wallets. Businesses are expanding here because our land and labor are cheap, converting farmland at a pace that threatens our food supply. Meanwhile, wealthy retirees and remote workers earning outside wages are driving up costs for local working families, creating division instead of cohesion. I don't claim to have all the answers, but if elected, I want the opportunity to address this directly: property tax relief, smart limits on agricultural land conversion, and policies that let local wages keep pace. This is the foundation of sustainable affordability over time.
Quality education comes from hiring the best teachers, paying them well, and letting them focus on what they've dedicated their lives to so that we retain them. If elected, I'll push to fully fund public schools, reduce the administrative burden pulling teachers from the classroom, and support smaller class sizes. The legislature should stop dictating curriculum, banning books, or pushing any one faith into our classrooms, and instead trust local educators and parents. I also want to expand vocational training and bring creativity and the arts back into our schools, because building things and creating things both shape confident, capable young people ready for whatever path they choose.
The legislature should play a clear role: protect our communities before data centers get built, not after. Data centers strain water, electric grids, and land, often without local say. In a district that includes part of the Cherokee National Forest, we must also protect the natural resources and recreation that make this place worth living in. If elected, I'll push to require operators to fund and complete grid upgrades before construction finishes, not through long-term payback schemes, and connect local hiring commitments to our vocational training pipeline so District 23 workers, not outside contractors, fill these jobs.
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Age
42
Education
Doctoral student at Lincoln Memorial University
Work experience
14 years as an Educator
Phone Number
4234539249
Public Education
Health Care
Economy
I would pass legislation that would get rid of the voucher program and fully fund public education. I would make healthcare more affordable by cutting costs with insurance companies, and I would help pass legislation to lower inflation and rising cost-of-living.
Cut costs on grocery bills and possibly get rid of the grocery taxes during a tax holiday. Give customers breaks on gas taxes, and anything else in way of legislation that can cut costs for consumers.
Fully fund public education and make sure that all schools are on equal footing when giving students the tools they need to succeed like textbooks and adequate technology.
There should not be data centers in Tennessee until their affects on the environment and jobs are fully determined. Tennessee should not lead the way in helping people lose jobs because of artificial intelligence both data centers and AI need to be regulated to help the human economy by way of saving jobs for people and not losing jobs to artificial intelligence.
