Office sought: Governor, Georgia
Election date: November 3, 2026
Why we’re endorsing
- Affordable Housing: Raised more than $700 million, and helped build or preserve more than 7,000 affordable homes
- Economic Opportunities and Education: Grew Atlanta’s economy and created pathways to opportunity; helped bring jobs, investment, and major employers to the city, expanded workforce training, supported small businesses, and invested in young people.
- Public Safety and Community Support: Worked to keep neighborhoods safe through technology and resources to back up first responders
- Transparent and Ethical Leadership: Implemented reforms that opened up city spending, strengthened oversight, and raised the bar for accountability in Atlanta government
- Environment and Health: A thriving Georgia requires clean water, healthy air, and community access to healthcare. She took that fight to Congress to protect Georgia’s natural resources from corporate interests, and put public health at the center of how Atlanta is governed
Candidate’s platform
Keisha is ready to hit the ground running on several critical fronts:
- Healthcare: Expand Medicaid, lower healthcare and prescription costs, support rural care, and invest in mental and maternal health.
- Housing: Lower housing costs by fast-tracking permitting, expanding homebuyer and renter assistance, and funding affordable housing.
- Education: Modernize school funding, eliminate state income tax for teachers, expand literacy and childcare, and offer tuition-free community and technical college.
- Farmers: Keep land in family hands, expand training, support cooperative models, and protect farmers from tariffs and market disruption.
- Small Business: Create a dedicated Office of Small Business, expand loans and grants, and ensure fairer state investment for small firms.
- Public Safety: Strengthen local law enforcement resources, support gun safety reform, invest in violence prevention, and expand reentry pathways.
- Our Rights, Freedoms, and Democracy: Protect reproductive rights, expand and safeguard voting access, and support state ethics and election reforms.
- Environmental Stewardship: Invest in flood mitigation and water infrastructure, clean up brownfields, and manage data center expansion responsibly.
- Veterans and Military Families: Translate military skills to credentials, offer tax relief, speed up state hiring, and improve healthcare and family support services.
- Affordability: Allow local governments to eliminate or suspend sales taxes on groceries and essential items during price spikes.