Priorities
I’m running for City Council to make sure the city keeps its promises, that government is accountable to the people of East Portland, and that all of our neighbors can build a life of belonging and purpose here.
Our Work Begins on Day One
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Community Safety
Invest in first response to include Portland Street Response, and build partnerships with community-based organizations to reduce gun violence, hate crimes, domestic violence, and dangerous traffic conditions.
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Shelter and Housing
Collaborate with partners—community, county, region, state, federal, and industry—to meet our unhoused neighbors’ needs and achieve our permanent housing goals.
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Climate Action
Support the work of the Portland Clean Energy Fund. Invest in active and resilient transportation choices. Grow our tree canopy.
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Better Government
Respect community members by engaging all of us in decisions in a meaningful way that honors our time and effort. Focus on accountability, transparency, and responsiveness.
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Shared Prosperity
Promote vocational training and continuing education, advance fair contracts, and establish a new office to support small business development.
Community Safety
Everyone deserves to feel safe—not only from violence but from the economic, social, and environmental conditions that fuel violence in the first place. Safety is the foundation for a thriving life.
We must expand our investments in innovative solutions that we know work, such as Portland Street Response, as well as build partnerships with community-based organizations to reduce gun violence, hate crimes, domestic violence, and dangerous traffic conditions.
Shelter and Housing
We didn’t get to our current housing crisis overnight. A lot of factors brought us to where we currently are, and it is going to take dedicated collaboration and work to get us to where we need to be as a city.
We must work in tandem—the city councilors across all four districts, as well as community, county, region, state, federal, and industry partners—to use all the tools in our toolkit. Together we can build shelters with wraparound services that meet our unhoused neighbors’ needs and to achieve our permanent housing goals.
Climate Action
We need less talk about our climate emergency and more action. Our climate crisis is killing Portlanders, such as in my zip code in Lents, which experienced more deaths than any other zip code during the 2021 heat dome. Extreme weather, increasing wildfires, and more frequent floods are a few examples of the growing climate crisis.
I am a lifelong climate advocate, and I will continue to advocate for growing our tree canopy, to support the work of the Portland Clean Energy Fund to guide our city to a just transition, and to invest in active and resilient transportation choices.
Building Better Government
East Portland has long been left behind in terms of investment and involvement. A better government is one that meaningfully and respectfully engages all of us in decisions.
From day one in office, I will ensure that our transition to a new coordinated bureau system centers accountability and transparency and that East Portlanders can both decide and track how our tax dollars are spent and how we are moving forward on our shared priorities.
Shared Prosperity
The old saying is true: we all do better when we all do better. But right now, some are doing very well, while the rest of us are barely making it.
The health and well-being of a city depends not just on the presence of economic opportunities but on those opportunities being available to all. In East Portland and throughout the city, we see and experience a growing issue: compounding crises have widened long-standing wealth gaps, across class, race, and gender. In addition, our labor markets are shifting quickly, offering both challenges and opportunities for inclusive growth.
