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Campaign Phone
302-468-4254
Neighborhood/area of residence
Midtown Brandywine in Wilmington, DE
Education
BS in Physics, Juniata College; BS in Engineering Science & Mechanics, Penn State University; MS in Engineering Design & Innovation, Northwestern University
Work Experience
Founder and owner of Trolley Web, a Wilmington-based web design and technology company, since 2013. Trained as an engineer, with experience applying systems thinking and problem-solving to business, technology, and community issues.
Community Involvement
Founder of Save The Valley, which helped protect Beaver Valley from development; founder of Midtown Monarch Monitors, a community conservation project; Midtown Brandywine Neighborhood Association board member; member of the New Castle County Open Space Advisory Board; Founder of Rank the Vote Delaware; longtime organizer in Delaware’s ultimate frisbee community; and advocate for parks, open space, walkable communities, and responsible development.
Additional Information
I'm an engineer, small-business owner, naturalist, and community organizer. I believe local government works best when we look at how decisions affect the whole system, not just the immediate project in front of us, and make sure growth and development leave our communities stronger.
I never expected to run for office. I got involved because I cared about the places and people around me. When 350 acres of woods near Brandywine Creek State Park was threatened by development, I helped organize Save The Valley. Ultimately, the land joined Delaware's national park. That experience showed me what people can accomplish when they come together, but it also showed me how much the decisions made by local government shape the places we call home.
That’s what motivates me to run. I believe we can have affordable housing, great parks, walkable communities, strong small businesses, and economic growth. We don’t have to choose between them. I want to help build a county that leaves something better for the people who come after us.
I’m an engineer by training, and I’ve always been the kind of person who wants to understand how things work and how they can work better. I’ve brought that approach to running a small business for 13 years and to years of community organizing, from helping protect Beaver Valley to serving on the New Castle County Open Space Advisory Board.
What differentiates me is also my independence. I reject corporate and developer campaign money. When a major development comes before Council, residents should never have to wonder whether my vote is influenced by who funded my campaign.
Families are being squeezed by the rising cost of housing, electricity, and everyday life. At the same time, New Castle County is facing enormous development pressure, from the loss of open space to data centers that could place new demands on our electric grid, water, and infrastructure, leaving working families to foot the bill.
These issues are connected. Where and how we grow affects housing costs, traffic, taxes, our environment, and our quality of life. We need more housing people can afford, strong protections for parks and open space, and development that pays for the costs it creates instead of passing them on to residents.
About 85% of the homes we build are the most expensive kind: detached single-family homes. We’ve made many more affordable types of housing difficult or impossible to build, while inadvertently subsidizing sprawl.
We can change that. We should allow smaller lots and make it easier to build townhomes, duplexes, apartments, and other lower-cost housing. At the same time, we need to be honest about the true cost of development. When new development requires expensive roads and infrastructure, those costs shouldn’t be shifted onto existing residents.
If we get the rules and incentives right, affordable housing can be profitable to build while sprawling development becomes less attractive.
Yes. We need to stop treating housing, transportation, parks, and economic development as separate issues. They all affect one another, and good planning can create win-win-wins.
When we build homes near shops, jobs, parks, and transportation, people have more ways to get around, local businesses gain customers, and families can spend less of their income on housing and transportation. Parks and trails can protect open space while also connecting neighborhoods and supporting local businesses.
We also need to think about what happens after development is built. What new costs does it create, and who pays for them? Growth should pay its own way, strengthen the communities around it, and help us accomplish several goals at once.
People shouldn’t need to understand county government or show up at a public meeting to have a voice in it. I want the county to reach people where they already are, through neighborhood groups, community organizations, local events, online communication, and direct outreach.
That also means working with trusted community leaders, communicating in different languages, and making it easier to participate around work and family schedules. This is especially important in communities that have historically been left out. Most importantly, we need to ask people what they think early enough that their input can actually change the decision.
Neighborhood/area of residence
Wilmington Riverfront
Education
Newark High School, Leadership Training from Cornell University
Work Experience
Business Manager of Laborers Local 199
Community Involvement
LEEP, Job Corp, Cool Shoes
I am running for County Council because I believe in a future where every Delawarean has the opportunity to thrive, not just survive. Our county is at a crossroads, and we need leadership that prioritizes working people and sustainable growth over empty promises. My platform is built on four pillars: Affordable Housing, Real Careers, Responsible Development, and Community Investment. I come from humble beginnings, I know how people are struggling in the district and the status quo is unacceptable.
I'm a lifelong Wilmington resident who's lived the squeeze of high housing costs and low wages. For two decades I've built things here, from pouring concrete on the Wilmington Courthouse to managing budgets and negotiating contracts as an executive running a major local organization, sharpened by leadership training at Cornell and construction management study at Wilmington University. I know how to bring people together and manage a budget responsibly, exactly what Council needs.
I've built a specific plan for affordable housing, good careers, and no property tax hikes. I'm running a positive, solutions-focused campaign, not one built on misleading attacks. Voters deserve leadership that unites District 4, not politicians who divide.
Housing affordability tops the list. Rents start near $1,500 a month, and new homes run over $500,000, out of reach for working families and seniors. The county code is a big part of the problem: right now the only thing financially viable to build is $500k+ single family homes on open space. We need to change the code to incentivize redevelopment that produces affordable housing while avoiding sprawl.
Second, real careers, not just jobs. We need guarantees that Delawareans get hired at a livable wage when companies get county support, not more warehouse jobs and job fairs.
Third, responsible development. We can't just say no anymore. We're fully capable of building things the right way.
I'll push to modernize our development code so smaller, denser housing types are financially viable to build, not just $500k+ single family homes on open space. That means streamlining permitting for affordable and workforce housing and updating the code to allow responsible density and smaller home types, so it's no longer faster and cheaper to build sprawl than to build affordably.
I'll also put teeth behind the county's affordable housing requirements: charge higher permit fees on market-rate projects priced above AMI, and put that money into a fund that offsets costs for developers who do build affordable housing. That rewards affordability instead of penalizing it, and helps redevelopment compete with sprawl.
Yes, and honestly it's 20 years overdue. Our code was built for a different era, and it's a big reason nobody builds affordable housing here. Right now the numbers only work for $500k+ single family homes on open space, so that's almost all that gets built. It also takes 3 to 5 years to get a shovel in the ground here, when much of our region moves far faster.
The next decade needs a full rewrite: a code that makes redevelopment and smaller housing actually buildable, transportation planning that keeps pace with where people need to get to work, and growth that pays its own infrastructure costs instead of homeowners. We can't tinker at the edges. We need to fix the code itself.
This isn't theoretical for me. I grew up on Wilmington's East Side, raised by three women who worked around the clock to keep us afloat. At 14, my mother's world fell apart, and mine did too. I know what it's like growing up without a safety net, in a community talked about more than listened to.
That lived experience is why residents trust me in the room, not just on election day. I've spent decades representing working people of every background as a union leader, making sure real concerns get heard, not just noted.
As a councilmember: door-knocking, community meetings, office hours in neighborhoods too often overlooked. Minority residents and working families get a direct line to my office, because they already know me.
