Michigan is fortunate to have dedicated educators who work hard every day to help students succeed. One of the biggest challenges facing our education system is the unequal distribution of resources between wealthier and lower-income communities. Every student deserves access to a quality education regardless of where they live. I support more equitable and consistent school funding and greater stability in education policy from year to year. I also believe schools should expose students to a full range of career paths, including college, skilled trades, apprenticeships, military service, and technical careers.

Michigan families deserve the opportunity to earn a living wage and build a secure future. To improve affordability, we must address housing costs, access to quality childcare, and strong public schools that support working families. I support attracting and growing businesses by promoting Michigan’s skilled workforce, quality of life, and economic opportunities. In the 26th District, that includes strengthening agriculture and attracting food-processing industries that add value to what we grow locally. I also believe unions play an important role in workforce training, good paying jobs, and building stable middle class families.

Michigan’s energy policy must balance reliability, affordability, and environmental responsibility. As our population and economy grow, we need to invest in modernizing and expanding the power grid and ensuring adequate generation capacity to meet future demand. Reliable energy is essential for families, businesses, agriculture, and economic development. I support an approach that keeps energy affordable for consumers while encouraging responsible environmental stewardship and long-term planning to ensure Michigan’s energy needs are met for decades to come.

Immigration is not an abstract issue for my family. My daughter-in-law came to the United States from Cuba as a child and later became a U.S. citizen. I support a fair and orderly immigration system that follows the law, but I also believe all people in Michigan, including noncitizens, are entitled to due process and constitutional protections. Law enforcement should focus on individuals who pose a genuine threat to public safety while respecting individual rights and established legal procedures. We can enforce our laws without abandoning the constitutional principles that define our nation.

School funding and education is one of my five priorities. As a school photographer, I worked all over mid-Michigan, and I saw well-funded schools with poor teaching and underfunded schools with great teachers. Funding matters, but supporting and retaining good teachers matters just as much. I'd push for funding that follows actual student need, stronger pipelines into the teaching profession, and working conditions that keep good teachers in the classroom.

Affordability is a big part of why I'm running. Michigan drivers unjustly pay some of the highest car insurance rates in the country, and sky high healthcare costs squeeze both families and small businesses alike. I'd also push for better workforce development, including getting CTE and skilled trades programs into more of our schools, so people here can earn a good living without needing to leave the district. A kid in my family earned a welding certificate while in high school, and they got to make well over $20 per hour straight out of high school. That should be the modern model, not the exception.

I support Michigan's goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2040, and I also support local control on siting. Communities shouldn't have projects forced on them despite their own zoning decisions, which is why I oppose the 2023 preemption law. I support solar, but not when it's being shoved down a community's throat. On affordability, I'd defend the MPSC's new data center protections so large users pay for the capacity they demand instead of pushing costs onto households, and I'd scrutinize any utility rate hike requests. Reliability starts with properly maintaining the grid we have, not prioritizing higher profits over people.

I strongly support due process and the First and Fourth Amendments, and those protections apply to every person in Michigan, citizen or not. That isn't a new policy I'm offering, it's what the Constitution already guarantees with its own wording. Due process means the government has to follow fair rules before it acts against any person. Anyone here following the law should be able to live without fear, and there should be a clear, legal path for working towards a better life. Immigration policy is set federally, not in Lansing, but at the state level I'd make sure Michigan's own laws and agencies apply these rights to everyone equally.

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