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Brief Bio
I am a small business owner, angel investor, and community volunteer who has spent my life working to make public infrastructure projects, state agencies, community organizations, and financial marketplaces more accessible, informative, and responsive. After meeting on Sullivan’s Island, my husband and I are celebrating our 22nd year of marriage. Our oldest son is entering his third year at the US Merchant Marine Academy and our youngest son is back at Clemson for his sophomore year.
Yes. Most businesses recognize the degradation of our environment is harmful to their employees, reputation, surrounding community, and ultimate bottom line. Sometimes a focus on short term thinking, financial gains from cutting environmental corners, and a lack of commitment to the people of this state has resulted in the hoarding of resources, the dumping of toxic materials, and a “catch us if you can” mindset.
We need to learn from past mistakes to prevent their re-occurrence while incentivizing environmental enhancements and maintenance which have proven to be effective. South Carolina’s smiling faces and beautiful places are too precious to be treated as dumping grounds or as resources to degrade.
Public education is essential to our democratic republic. We all need inspiring and caring teachers in our lives. Equitable, quality education needs to meet children where they are with individualized curriculum paths designed to ignite each child's unique strengths & gifts. Education funded with public funds must be designed to build competencies in a foundation of knowledge which has been proven to enable the student’s participation in our society & economy. While I support public funds for childcare and have seen how community based, charter schools can be effective, SC must properly invest into our community based public schools before funding private k-12 schools and hold all of the authorizers of our charter school's accountable.
Addressing inequalities faced by anyone begins by listening to their experiences and prioritizing to the solutions they recommend over the opinions of those who are outside of the situation. We must believe in women when they share their experiences like the Sister Senators did on the floor of the Senate.
The state does not belong in private and often emergency medical decisions between a doctor and their patient. SC's women deserve a statehouse committed to improve the state's maternal health, break cycles of abuse, and reduce child poverty.
We should repeal the cruel 6 week abortion ban at the statehouse, through a referendum, or at least add more exceptions to protect women.
SC should finally ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
The ability to purchase decent health care coverage for preventative care and emergencies, without limitations on pre-existing conditions, has been life changing for me and my husband.
Almost 80% of SC’s small businesses do not offer health insurance and many low-income workers do not make enough to afford or qualify for the open market. We need to cover this gap and provide access for more than 345,000 South Carolinians to receive preventative care, reduce medical debt, and decrease mortality rates. After all of the talk about protecting lives by the Senate, the unwillingness to expand Medicaid demonstrates the disgusting truth: our statehouse currently doesn't care about healthcare, it only cares about having control over who gets it.
No! The south is not as attractive or livable without power to run air conditioning, especially as global temperature rise. SC has also embraced the addition of data centers and quantum computing which consume a lot of energy.
We need to expand our power generating capabilities, but we should not do it on the backs of ratepayers or without an effective public service commission. The public deserves open hearings and consideration of alternative solutions.
We cannot forget the lessons of the VC Summer nuclear facility debacle. I believe these problems would have been addressed sooner or shut down faster if they were not using the advance fees paid by all South Carolinians - many of whom were struggling to pay their energy bills.
