Age
32
Occupation / Current Position
Broker/Owner of Cody & Co.
Education
Bachelors
Experience & Qualifications
Real estate broker, property manager, small business owner, housing provider, former Heritage Hill Association President, CARWM Political Affairs Chair, and RPAC Trustee.
Campaign Phone
6162406590
My experience has given me a practical understanding of Grand Rapids from many perspectives: as a resident, homeowner, landlord, small business owner, real estate broker, property manager, and neighborhood leader. For seven years, I have worked directly with renters, homeowners, business owners, contractors, and community leaders to solve real problems involving housing, property conditions, affordability, and city processes. I have also served as President of the Heritage Hill Association, Chair of CARWM’s Political Affairs Committee, and as an RPAC Trustee. I would bring that hands-on experience, along with a focus on transparency, accessibility, accountability, and practical problem-solving, to the City Commission.
Grand Rapids faces major challenges around housing affordability and availability, homelessness, neighborhood stability, public safety, and keeping city government responsive as we grow. I would focus on expanding housing options while protecting neighborhood character, improving permitting and inspection processes, supporting homeownership and small businesses, strengthening partnerships that address homelessness, and investing in safe, walkable neighborhoods. I also want clearer public metrics so residents can see what is working, where delays exist, and whether City programs are delivering results.
My goals are to make city government more transparent and responsive, expand housing options while protecting neighborhood character, strengthen small businesses and economic opportunity, and improve the everyday systems residents rely on. I would work to accomplish this by holding regular office hours, publishing clear Ward 2 updates, using measurable performance goals, improving permitting and inspection processes, supporting practical housing solutions, and building stronger partnerships with residents, neighborhoods, businesses, nonprofits, and city staff. I want residents to see progress, understand decisions, and know they have an accessible commissioner working for them.
I am open to exploring data center development, but only when it provides a clear benefit to the community and does not shift costs or environmental impacts onto residents. Michigan now has protections intended to make data centers cover their own infrastructure and energy costs, while local governments retain authority over land use and community impacts.
In Grand Rapids, I would evaluate proposals based on job creation, tax revenue, water and energy use, infrastructure demands, noise, location, and long-term community benefit. I would support strong transparency requirements and enforceable agreements so residents are not left subsidizing private development.
Occupation / Current Position
Executive Director Girls Choral Academy
Education
BA Criminal Justice Ferris State, MAML from Cornerstone University
Experience & Qualifications
Currently serving in the role of City Commissioner and seeking a 2nd term
Campaign Phone
616-633-6788
I believe I am a candidate uniquely suited to tackle Grand Rapids' deep economic disparities by directly addressing the city's housing gap, procurement bottlenecks, and localized neighborhood development. My core structural advantages include:
1. Hands-on Leadership in the Housing Crisis While the city faces a severe housing deficit and skyrocketing rents, I have focused my community work on grassroots solutions rather than purely corporate real estate models.
I sit on the board of directors for Family Promise of West Michigan, an organization explicitly designed to end family homelessness and secure emergency shelter.
Grand Rapids faces critical challenges rooted in economic inequity, housing insecurity, transit accessibility, and environmental injustice, I support expanding community resources for families in housing crises through localized volunteer leadership, such as my work with Family Promise of West Michigan. On the city commission, I advocated for a cautious, hyper-intentional approach to zoning changes. Rather than allowing blanket four-plex multi-family conversions that might incentivize corporate predatory property acquisitions, she pushed for targeted economic development tools that make small-scale infill developments affordable for local buyers, thereby stabilizing long-term neighborhood residency.
I seek to provide a level of continuity and openness to speaking to the issues that directly impact our community, moving forward initiatives like the affordable Housing fund, our land bank, affordable housing units and working with our local partners on transportation and mobility services and economic development
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