Training and Experience
After finishing his Master's degree, Dani joined the Obama campaign as a community organizer in 2012. He then helped start grassroots organization Battleground Texas, focused on registering and turning out a new generation of voters in Texas. During law school he worked in the White House Counsel's Office and the North Carolina Attorney General's Office of Consumer Protection. After law school, Dani founded Cohear, a community engagement firm, elevating and empowering community voices.
Volunteer/Community Service
Longtime mentor/"big brother", volunteer tutor, and former Board Member: Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Jewish Community Relations Council, Heartfelt Tidbits, Bonds of Union
I am focused on:
Improving public education through better school funding, higher teacher pay, and innovative efforts to improve attendance and graduation
Increasing access to affordable and high quality childcare
Addressing our housing crisis by increasing construction, removing barriers to development, and strengthening renters' rights
Reducing youth gun violence by investing in after school programming, mentorship programs, and innovative, evidence-based approaches to utilize incentives and wrap around services
Making our tax system - especially property taxes - fairer by freezing lower-income seniors' property taxes, simplifying the process, and re-evaluating the assessment process.
We need redistricting reform - citizens should choose their elected officials, not the other way around. That means we need an independent commission to draw our legislative maps. Further, I support same-day voter registration and automatic voter registration, because it should be easy and simple for citizens to vote.
By investing in the main drivers of quality of life in Ohio - good schools, safe communities, homes people can afford, high quality childcare access, public spaces - we will drive population growth and economic opportunity. Further, we need to continue to invest in developing workforce pipelines into careers that both fill needed gaps and provide strong economic stability, including the building trades, technology, medicine, nursing, education, and childcare.
We need to fully and fairly fund our school system. Every kid in Ohio, regardless of where they are born, deserves a world-class education. Educating our young people should be our number one investment in our future, which means significantly increasing the amount we spend on public schools. Those investments pay huge dividends down the road, with a better educated workforce, more businesses being created, and fewer people entangled in our justice system.
We need to return to fully funding our local government fund in Ohio. Since Kasich gutted that funding, our local governments have been struggling to maintain basic services and infrastruture maintenance. Everyone loses when our cities and townships don't have the resources they need to provide high quality services for their citizens, so we need to restore much higher levels of local government funding.
We are the richest country in the history of the world, and it is unacceptable that so many people still lack access to high quality healthcare that they can afford. We need a healthcare system that puts people and patients first, that invests in preventative care to reduce costs, and ensures that everyone - regardless of ability to pay - has access to the high quality care that they deserve.
The climate crisis is getting worse every day, and we all lose if we don't act to both reduce and reverse the harm that has been done, while also focusing on how we can mitigate the risks of climate change.
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