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We must restore peoples’ economic freedom and dignity and MAKE San Diego AFFORDABLE. It is time that the top 1% paid their fair share to the workers that have ensured their success. Instead of using our taxes to pay for endless wars and GENOCIDE abroad, it is time that Congress worked for the people it is meant to represent. These funds can be used to fund the Social Security Expansion Act, federally-funded public transit, equity initiatives. These investments will allow us to build a future where scientific progress, economic security, and opportunity are not privileges, but rights shared by all. We are demanding care over cruelty. Dignity without delay. And it’s time our representation caught up. As people across the country are surveilled for merely existing and silenced for speaking out, we must push back against federally-backed campaigns of terror. Trump and his allies are attacking democracy itself, from the rights to protest and exist freely to the rights to fair jobs and livable wages. We can’t afford to wait this out. Towards this, we must also ABOLISH ICE. With the onslaught of domestic attacks on speech and human rights by our current administration, it is more important than ever to defend and assert our human rights. This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States. Our tradition of innovation in San Diego is losing its human touch. My extensive engineering background in research and policy-forward settings alike has uniquely equipped me with bold ideas to legislate on, such as creating government-funded LABraries to democratize science innovation. Progress doesn’t mean pushing profits over people. We need leaders capping drug prices while supporting funding for research. I will fight for Universal Healthcare and protect medical innovation. The bold path is the realistic one. Delay has already cost us too much. Our people and planet need decisive action like passing the Green New Deal.

As an educator and engineer-scientist who is a proud former union worker in UAW 2710, my philosophy has long been guided by the basic belief that workers’ power must overcome that of the billionaire class to allow for the flourishing of human and planetary health. I used to say, “our system has two parties, yet somehow no food for the people,” and am very much still guided by the belief that we must abandon the capitalist mindset in favor of one that centers people power, affordability, peace and human rights. As an organizer at Columbia’s encampment and in the housing justice movement here, I have seen what a people-centered way of addressing foreign policy and housing first policy looks like and I promise to keep fighting. As a school shooting and hurricane survivor, I am acutely aware of the sustainable development needed to strengthen our communities through the Green New Deal and other progressive legislation. I have guided direct actions with Fridays for Future USA at a National Care Coordinator towards this end previously and look forward to continuing the policy fight forward as all. In San Diego, I have primarily worked as a housing justice and youth rights advocate previously as the Acting Executive Director and Senior Director at local non-profit, Our Time to Act where I coordinated staff and pushed mixed used development and increased affordable housing stock via the passage of HAP 2.0 and youth-led policy proposals. My experience in science and policy advocacy has greatly equipped me to tackle federal policy with a bold yet pragmatic vision.

I believe in dismantling and abolishing ICE in favor of a system that truly treats immigration law as the human and civil issue that it is over the customs enforcement as the criminalizing and terrorizing entity that it was founded as post-9/11.

I support overturning Citizens United, bolstering public financing of campaigns and barring any candidate from accepting corporate or foreign agent PAC money.

I support acts taking to the More WATER Act and the Green New Deal for Public Housing that mandates upgraded water management systems. We also need clearer enforcement of legislation such as the Clean Water Act and more state-federal partnerships to upgrade water systems. I will fight the building of more pipelines by Big Oil and support the moratorium on AI Data Centers proposed by Rep. AOC and Sen. Bernie Sanders to address serious concerns regarding water usage/quality and the current lack of motivation to recycle water.

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1. Adults (and minors with their parents' help) own their own bodies and therefore should have control over decisions such abortions, use of medicine and drugs, gender-affirming care, and end-of-life decisions. 2. I want to overturn racist international policies, including the support for war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, attempted regime changes in Venezuela and Iran, and CBP/ICE actions against Central/South American immigrants (but not light-skinned Afrikaaners or Canadians). 3. I would work to limit government spending to the essentials: protecting people from force, fraud and theft; and providing a very minimum safety net for those who can't help themselves. Excessive government spending either leads to higher taxation (on workers, not the leisure class) or borrowing (pay later, with interest) or inflation (which affects the poorest the most). Most libertarians say they hate taxes, but the hidden tax of inflation is more regressive than most others.

I am not running based on government experience (I have none, except a little experience with bureaucracy from my work as a public school teacher) nor my ability to rapidly identify key governmental policies by name (my hat is off to those who can do so, especially if that is not their only occupation). My sole qualifications are my principles (generally libertarian--you own your own body and mind). If people believe that I am a good person because I taught school or intelligent because I taught math, then I will accept their votes with humility.

Yes! We need immigrants, for the sake of our economy and for the strength of our culture. Immediately, CBP/ICE have to be reined in and restructured--they violate our laws and our core principles as a country. Next, we should create pathways for temporary workers to be able to come to US, work safely (with legal status, so they are not exploited), and return to their country without fear that they will have to attempt a dangerous return if they come to work again. Our current system encourages people to stay even when they don't want to. Next, we should encourage the flow of highly-skilled workers (for instance, those who use H1b visas) to work here and potential live here. These people believe in the ideals of America, and come with qualifications, brainpower and drive.

I support transparency, but it is not a priority. Donors will circumvent rules and money alone is not a determining factor in elections (or else Clinton would have beaten Trump in 2016).

The federal government does a decent job of setting water quality standards, though they could probably be given better enforcement tools (think about Flint Michigan's problems). Getting out of the way of the states and allowing them to sell water rights (rather than just fighting to get better shares at the expense of other states) would go a long way toward allocating water to where it's most needed.