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Ballot Designation
Demographer/Community Organizer
Candidate's Political Party
Democrat
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My first priority is to fix our democracy so every vote counts more. Today, each person’s vote is much weaker because the House has been stuck at 435 seats since 1911. Our country has grown a lot, but representation has not. This goes against the idea in the Constitution that government should grow with the people. We need to expand representation so citizens can be heard again.
My second priority is real transparency and accountability. Transparency is not just showing data—it must include tools to study it and act on it. That means building strong systems for analysis and making sure findings lead to real change. We also need to rebuild federal data gathering so we know what is actually happening in housing, costs, and communities. Without good data and action, transparency is just words.
My third priority is affordability and basic needs. People are struggling with housing, health care, food, and water. I support practical solutions, including new water technologies like recycling, desalination, and pulling water from the air. These can help communities rely less on distant systems. Government should invest in these solutions so people can live with security and dignity..
I bring a combination of scholarship, demographic analysis, military service, and civic activism to this office. As a demographer with PhD-level training, I am used to looking beyond slogans and asking how institutions actually function, who is represented, and who is being left out. I also served as an officer in the Israeli army, an experience that deepened my understanding of leadership, responsibility, and the real human consequences of government decisions.
My activism has focused on housing affordability, public accountability, transparency, and the real-world effects of policy on ordinary communities. During this campaign I have personally collected hundreds of survey responses from residents, and they consistently show deep concern about housing costs, food affordability, transportation burdens, healthcare costs, and the feeling that government is not responsive enough to community needs. That direct engagement has grounded my campaign in lived realities, not abstractions.
I also bring a constitutional perspective that is largely absent from public debate: my concern that every citizen’s federal vote has been diluted by roughly 90% since Congress froze the House at 435 districts in 1911, undermining the representative principle of Article I, Section 2. I am running not as a career politician, but as a researcher, activist, and engaged citizen committed to a more representative, transparent, and humane government.
Yes. People have human rights no matter their immigration status, and any immigration reform should begin from that principle. A nation can have borders and laws, but those do not erase a person’s human dignity, right to due process, right to safety from abuse, and right to humane treatment. I know this personally: I entered the United States as a refugee with my parents, who were Holocaust survivors, during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. I know the fear of being unwanted, of living with hostility, even of having rocks thrown at your window by people who want you gone. That experience taught me that immigration policy is not just about enforcement; it is about whether we recognize the humanity of vulnerable people. I support immigration laws that are orderly and enforceable without cruelty: a fair asylum process, protection for family unity, legal pathways for long-term residents, faster case resolution, and labor enforcement that prevents exploitation.
Yes. I support full transparency for all political donors, including donors who give through Super PACs and other entities designed to hide influence. Voters have a right to know who is trying to shape elections and public policy. But even more important, I believe we must address the structural conditions that make big-money dominance so powerful. A simple repeal of the century-old law freezing the House at 435 districts, instead of expanding representation as envisioned in Article I, Section 2, would make a major difference. Smaller districts would be far more reachable, candidates would be less dependent on large donors and expensive media, and those trying to buy influence would have to spread their money across far more races, making their goals much harder to achieve. Transparency matters, but democratizing representation itself is the deeper reform.
I support a federal water strategy for California built on diversification, decentralization, and cleanup. We should invest in local water creation—recycling, reuse, desalination where appropriate, and emerging technologies that extract water from air using advanced porous materials such as Metal–Organic Frameworks, which can capture moisture even in low humidity. This reduces dependence on long-distance canals and vulnerable imports. The federal government should fund R&D and deployment of these technologies, just as it did with the space program, alongside major investment in water quality: PFAS removal, wastewater upgrades, stormwater capture, and lead remediation. A national Water Innovation initiative of roughly $5–10 billion over a decade would be modest compared to other federal technology spending, but transformative in building resilient, local water systems.
Ballot Designation
Advertising Creative Director
Candidate's Political Party
Democrat
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First, I would like to thank the League of Women Voters for facilitating these issues. My mother was the president of LWV where I grew up in Austin, TX!
My priorities are:
Housing Affordability, Film Production in LA, Affordable and Available Healthcare
Housing: At the federal level, we simply need to provide funds to states to build more lower and middle income housing. We can also legislate the reduction of foreign and corporate ownership of family housing. We must also legislate incentives for landlords to thrive with affordable rents.
Film Production: We must increase national subsidies that can stack onto state subsidies that make America more competitive in global production. I would use my national platform to advocate for allies at the local and state level.
Healthcare: I support universal healthcare. In the meantime, there are fixes we could do to Obamacare now, such as the P.O.P.S. fixes:
Public Option - government sponsored plans that compete with private
Prescriptions - reduce prescription prices
Subsidies - provide more funding to people who can't afford premiums and co-pays
And Impeach Trump today.
Many people know me as one of the first activists to protest Elon Musk and DOGE. I am a national spokesman for Tesla Takedown, and an organizer of ICE OUT protests and other rallies.
I also run namethemtoshamethem.com, an advocacy against gun violence which bypasses politics and the NRA and goes directly after the gun and ammunition companies because their business model thrives on more violence and fear.
I have also been a 20-year volunteer with California Clean Money, with the ultimate goal of having publicly financed elections. We worked to get CA SB42 on the ballot in November, which will lift the ban on publicly financed elections.
As a Director/Creative Director, I have over two decades of budget conscious management of multiple teams of artists.
I am excited to combine my activism, advocacy, and leadership skills to mobilize change for the people.
Immigration is a multilayered issue that needs more than one priority fix. It requires a comprehensive approach, which is what almost happened in 2013 and again in 2024 before Republicans killed both efforts. First, we should abolish ICE. I am a fan of "mend it don't end it," but ICE is the exception. We also need to reimagine Immigration enforcement outside of DHS, the agency that protects us from terrorism.
America needs to fund many more immigration courts, we need to develop a seasonal documented worker program, we need to complete the legalization of DACA/Dreamers, we need to enhance high tech screening at the borders, and we need a humane and fair process to give citizenship to immigrants who have been here a long time and have been law-abiding valued members of their communities.
For a healthy democracy, there should be no hidden or dark money. Money is not protected speech: money is property. Obviously, we need to overturn Citizen's United.
There are many bills to fix this issue, such as the End Dark Money Act, and the DISCLOSE Act.
It's a simple proposition in a democracy: we give money to politicians transparently.
I'm proud that California Clean Money has already achieved some wins like SB 1360 — California Legislative Information — which requires the last five seconds of a political ad to clearly list the top three funders of the ad.
We can help California with:
- water storage
- recycling, groundwater recharge projects
- conservation
This help will come via funding and coordination with government agencies at state and federal level.
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