State Representatives sit in the New Mexico House of Representatives, which is the lower house of New Mexico. Representatives introduce and vote on proposed laws, serve on legislative committees, and participate in hearings, floor debates, fact-finding and investigations. They also may assist constituents with issues and problems the constituents may have with government agencies within New Mexico. Term: Two years; no term limits.
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I'm proud to represent House District 19, the most diverse neighborhood in New Mexico, and I'm running for a third term because the work isn't finished. I was raised here, a Manzano graduate, and I'm the daughter of a Nigerian immigrant. In two terms I've written, carried, and debated legislation from kitchen-table idea to the Governor's desk. I delivered $30 million for new housing at the State Fair grounds and worked to create an independent Board of Directors for the African American Performing Arts Center. I chair the Housing New Mexico Oversight Interim Committee and vice chair Commerce and Economic Development. District 19 deserves a Representative who knows the process and delivers results. I'd be honored to keep earning your vote.
I will continue to fight for housing. It is critical. As Chair of the Housing New Mexico Oversight Committee, I'm working to cut the bureaucratic redundancies and outdated zoning that slow construction. I'm pushing to establish a State Office of Housing Planning and Production, and I'm carrying legislation to automatically expunge old eviction records, because a single eviction shouldn't lock a family out of housing for life. I'm also working to focus our juvenile system from punishment into prevention, because stable kids do not commit crime. HD-19 kids deserve mental health care, mentorship, and opportunity, not a pipeline to prison. And I'll fight the affordability crisis squeezing working families, from groceries to utilities and rent.
Water is existential for New Mexico, and the legislature has to follow the people who actually know the science, our conservationists, Pueblo leaders, agricultural producers, and frontline environmental experts. Planning should be long-range and regional, not session to session. We need to rein in heavy corporate users, whose draws strain the same aquifers our families and farms depend on, invest seriously in conservation and reuse infrastructure, and write climate adaptation into state law so future legislatures can't walk it back. And we have to build water equity into every decision, because drought hits low-income and refugee communities first and hardest.
Economic development is how we build a stronger New Mexico. It brings jobs, investment, and opportunity, and when it's done right, it lifts up the communities that host it. But economic development must be built in partnership with those communities, not imposed on them. Projects should benefit working people, support local families, and leave our neighborhoods stronger than they found them. That means real jobs with real wages, genuine infrastructure and public benefits, and enforceable commitments that last. Too often, New Mexico has been sold empty promises by corporations chasing a quick profit at our expense. I'll keep fighting to make sure economic development delivers on its promises to the people who actually live here.
Every New Mexican deserves healthcare, and the long-term answer is single-payer at the state and federal level. At a minimum we need a public option on the marketplace. The federal government is sabotaging healthcare, gutting Medicaid, starving community health centers, and driving costs sky-high. I'm proud the Legislature has fought back, but we must do more. We have to defend Medicaid, step in where the federal government walks out, pass safe staffing standards so patients actually get seen, and meet people where they are with mental and behavioral health care, addiction treatment, and culturally competent services for refugee and immigrant communities in HD-19. The federal government has turned its back on working families. I am not.
