Training and Experience
Using my law degree, I worked as an attorney, a domestic relations magistrate, and a mediator in court cases. I currently lead attorney panel meetings for the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, and practice law part-time. Using my political science degree, I worked as a researcher in the education policy and workforce fields. I also taught at the kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, university, and graduate school levels in a variety of settings.
Volunteer/Community Service
Leadership or board positions held in PTOs, Girl Scouts, United Campus Ministry, Athens Cty Bar Assn, Athens Cty Foundation, Athens League of Women Voters, Athens Hocking Vinton Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Board, and more.
Every Ohioan deserves a voice in our government. Democracy is strongest when we have a government that truly listens and works for everyone. I will work to keep our elections safe and fair. I will advocate for automatic voter registration, same-day registration, reasonable ID requirements, and more to make it easier for all eligible citizens to vote. I will work to keep large corporations and foreign actors out of our politics. We deserve to know the source of political action committee (PAC) money. We deserve impartial judges who are elected in a nonpartisan manner. I will work to reform Ohio's map-making processes so citizens, not politicians, draw legislative districts that are fair, instead of being shaped like turkeys, snakes or ducks. Please join me in building a better democracy.
Let's put families first, not large corporations. For too long, the tax burden has shifted onto the shoulders of hardworking people while large corporations receive tax breaks. I will work to pass laws that reduce the tax burden on low and middle income families. I will work to require public hearings before our government can grant massive tax breaks to corporations for projects like data centers. It's time to eliminate "coupons for the rich" by ending the expanded EdChoice voucher program, and by wisely investing those dollars ($492 million in 2025) where they're needed in the public schools that serve our communities. I will fight for property tax reform to ensure none of us are taxed out of our homes. You work hard for your money; your tax code should work just as hard for you.
We’re all feeling the rising cost of necessities like groceries, housing, health insurance, electricity, and gasoline. It’s not fair that some people have extreme wealth, while many of us sit at our kitchen tables trying to balance our budgets. I’m running for State Representative because I’m tired of the Ohio Legislature passing laws that benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of us. I will work to repeal laws that give wealthy individuals and large corporations tax breaks, that take away health care from hundreds of thousands of people, and that allow utilities to profit beyond reason. We all suffer when the rich have a larger influence in politics than the rest of us have. I will work for you, using my education, experience, and deep sense of fairness to represent all of us.
Our public schools are suffering a funding crisis. Ohio lawmakers have diverted your tax dollars to fund private schools with little accountability as to how the funds are spent, and with no obligation to accept your child into their school. I will work to make sure Ohio’s public school funding finally becomes “thorough and efficient” as required by the Ohio Constitution. I will also work to fund Ohio’s career centers and universities thoroughly and efficiently. Lastly, I will work to overturn the 2025 law (SB1) that limited academic freedom, curtailed union rights, and created an atmosphere of fear in our universities. Ohio’s schools and universities are best run by educational professionals, not politicians. Good education systems result in strong workforces and thriving communities.
To lessen the increasingly harmful tensions among political parties, I will focus on solving real problems facing all of us, and I will insist, respectfully, on the civil rights of all people. I will prioritize listening—to constituents, local leaders, and colleagues across the aisle. I will work to build relationships that make cooperation possible. Many of the challenges facing our district are not partisan. For example, toxic waste injection well issues affect communities regardless of the political affiliations of their residents. I am proud that both Republican and Democratic officials in Washington County invited me to participate in meetings leading to five water boards and four other public bodies seeking an injection well moratorium from the state. Working together, we do better.
