Office sought: Arizona State Senate, District 9 (Incumbent)
Election date: November 3, 2026
Why we’re endorsing
- Appointed to the Arizona State Senate in 2025
- Nonprofit community leader
- Experienced Arizona public policy professional
- Community and civil rights advocate
- Secured $2M in the Arizona budget for Double Up Food Bucks, providing fresh produce for families using SNAP / EBT
- Secured $3M for United Food Bank, located in LD9 and partnered with 125+ local food banks serving families statewide
- Introduced legislation to cap essential medication costs for Arizonans, and educate Arizona students about the FAFSA
- Secured $2M for the Area on Aging to support seniors, $2M for Arizona’s Art Commission, and championed the Education Speed Bonds for our universities, which provided funding for the Teacher’s Academy, ASU Medical School, and the Arizona Promise Scholarship Program.
- Master’s in Public Administration, Arizona State University
- Professor of Practice at Arizona State University
Candidate’s platform
- Improving access to healthcare for Arizonans by capping the cost of prescription drugs and expanding eligibility for state health care plans
- Lowering housing costs and increasing housing availability by limiting corporate homeownership and preventing source-of-income and other forms of discrimination
- Fully funding Arizona’s public K-12 schools by fixing existing constitutional limits on public school spending through the Aggregate Expenditure Limitation (AEL)
- Strengthening voter rights by reinstating the Permanent Early Voter List (PEVL) and enshrining voting as a state right in Arizona.
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