I am running for the Maine State House because I believe that our city and community is best served when we have leaders who understand the inner workings of how our city runs, who have built trusted relationships with local leaders, city staff and elected officials and who have an inclusive lens on policy and budget development.

I am not going to the State House with a specific agenda, but having served Portland for two terms on council I do have some ideas and areas of interest that I hope to pursue. But what I have also learned is that this work is not done in isolation or for the benefit of one person, so I will also need community engagement to best understand what is important to Portlanders and use that engagement to inform my work.

I am proud to call Portland home. I am proud of the services, the businesses and the community we have built here.  I also know that we are living through incredibly difficult political and economic realities. And that navigating those realities is hard. Building policy to address those realities is hard. Building coalitions and support in a very polarizing landscape is hard.  I am ready to face these challenges and bring my unique skills to work for our city in Augusta.

Ahe’hee (Thank You) for your support and I look forward to hearing from you about what your ideas and hopes are for our city.