We all deserve healthy communities for our families to be part of.
I’m honored to be state senator for the 37th Legislative District. Together, we are fighting for a safe, healthier, and more just economy that supports the needs of all Washingtonians. Our future has to include everyone who wants to call Washington home and policy that addresses our state’s most pressing needs, including a worsening climate crisis—which disproportionately impacts communities of color, Indigenous communities, and so many others who have been pushed out and left out of decision-making.
It will take an organizer, an intuitive leader, and a community builder to get things done. My policy priorities as your state senator hold both the people and our environment at the center.
From Walla Walla to Tacoma to Redmond, we can find innovative solutions that expand what is possible for all of us when we center racial, social, environmental, and economic justice.
My experience as a coalition builder will bring more voices to the table.
I have consistently championed environmental justice, people-first stewardship, and worker’s rights throughout my tenure in the state senate:
Convened the Evergreen Learning cohort with colleagues like Senator Liz Lovelett.
Prime sponsored the Healthy Environment for All Act in partnership with community and community-based organizations and the covered agencies.
Championed the Climate Commitment Act, clean fuels standard, and transformational transportation investment strategy with Move Ahead WA.
Expanded employees’ collective bargaining rights, supported statewide paid-family leave act, and protected and strengthened reproductive health care.
My work has always been about my deepest passion–connecting the people of Washington to their own power to face the most pressing needs of our state: a changing climate, growing inequality, and hopelessness. I’m a fighter. I’ve seen my father fight his own battle with cancer and win; I’ve fought and continue to fight cancer and know first-hand that Washington State can do better. Washingtonians deserve someone who is going to fight to heal and protect these lands and all who call this place home. I do have ambition that the place I love and the people I care so deeply about can together do hard things because I have seen us do it.