Biographical Information
Occupation / Current Position
Nonprofit Executive Director
Education
No formal educational credential is required to serve the U.S. House of Representatives. Public leadership should be evaluated by a person’s knowledge, judgment, lived experience, & service.
Qualifications and Experience
My qualifications come from years of working directly with people, communities, and systems shaping everyday life. I'm a nonprofit founder, leader, mediator, educator, life doula, community developer.
HEALTH CARE: What specific steps will you take in Congress to address healthcare affordability, access, and quality for the people you represent?
I support universal healthcare. Our current heavily privatized healthcare structure fails at serving the best interests of the public. Access to care is often shaped by employment, insurance status, geography, cost, and ability to navigate complex systems, instead of medical need. In Congress, I'll support access to comprehensive universal coverage, addressing immediate concerns such as Rx costs, medical debt, maternal health, mental health services, rural healthcare access, preventive care, and provider shortages. Health policy extends to housing, nutrition, transportation, environmental conditions, education, stress, and more.
ECONOMY: What policy initiatives do you support for residents to earn a living wage and address the overall question of affordability across Michigan?
America’s promise of upward mobility - the American Dream has been deterred.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education, employment, family stability, small businesses, and community institutions in ways that are still tangible. At the same time, years of underinvestment in education have placed enormous pressure on teachers, administrators, students, and families.
We're now entering another period of major economic change as ai and automation reshape the workplace. This tech creates great opportunities, but they also change which skills are valuable and which jobs are available. I support Universal basic income to provide economic stability.
ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY: How would you approach ensuring energy reliability, consumer affordability, and environmental protection in Michigan?
Sustainability should be central to energy policy. I believe we can create a healthy partnership between public investment and private innovation.
Essential energy infrastructure should operate in public interest. Taxpayers finance grid modernization, renewable-energy development, storage, and other major infrastructure. So, the public should share in the long-term value those investments create.
Also, as innovation often grows through competition, research, entrepreneurship, and experimentation. I support healthy competition of private companies (co-ops, universities, researchers, businesses) to provide water, solar, wind, and storage tech.
IMMIGRATION: What is your position on due process, First Amendment, and Fourth Amendment rights for all Michigan residents, including noncitizens, and what changes, if any, would you support?
I believe constitutional principles such as due process, freedom of speech and association, and protection from unreasonable searches and seizures are fundamental safeguards against government overreach.
Immigration status should not eliminate a person’s basic right to fair treatment under the law. I support immigration policies that are orderly, humane, and consistent with constitutional protections and due process.
I support reforms that improve the efficiency/fairness of the immigration system, ensure access to fair legal proceedings, protect families/children from unnecessary harm, mandating law enforcement and immigration accountability.