Issues to Fight For:
The Right to Live Where You Work
I grew up watching my mom make impossible choices between paying bills, and I see families making those same choices today. They are deciding between rent and a prescription, or childcare and a mortgage. That is a failure of leadership. We have to stop pricing Georgians out of their own state. From cracking down on grocery price-gouging to incentivizing affordable housing, I am committed to an economy where, if you work in Georgia, you can afford to live in Georgia.
Georgia Values, Not DC Mandates
As a state representative, my duty is to the people of District 57, not the politicians in Washington. Whether it’s attacks on our healthcare or attempts to override our local laws, I will stand as a firewall against the Trump Administration’s overreach. We will not let federal chaos dictate our future or strip away the rights we have fought to protect here at home. We decide what’s best for Georgia, not DC.
HOPE for the Full Journey
The HOPE Scholarship changed my life—it’s the reason I’m standing here today. But to ensure the next generation succeeds, we have to modernize HOPE to support a child’s entire journey, from their first steps to their first career.
That starts with recognizing that the most critical years for brain development happen before kindergarten. I want to use HOPE funds to expand Pre-K and childcare options, especially for our frontline workers, because early learning is essential economic infrastructure, not a luxury.
And when those kids are ready to launch, HOPE must be the key that unlocks their future. Whether a student wants to be a welder, a coder, or a doctor, I’m fighting to ensure our lottery dollars support all paths to success—technical colleges and universities alike. We need a HOPE that works for everyone, ensuring every Georgian can pursue the career of their choosing without being buried in debt.
Fighting the
Trump-Kemp Machine
The Trump-Kemp extremist agenda, fueled by fear and focused on attacking immigrants and glorifying guns, doesn’t reflect the values of voters in our district who want common sense solutions to improve our schools, create jobs and make sure more Georgians have access to the health care they need. As your State Representative, you can count on me to stand up to the Trump-Kemp agenda and put my experience to work to fight for the values we share.
Healthcare
The ability to see a doctor should never depend on your paycheck or your medical record. That’s why I am a staunch proponent of expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Georgians. In the legislature, I’ll fight to fully expand Medicaid so the hundreds of thousands of Georgians left behind by healthcare cutbacks will be able to see their doctor regardless of their income or pre-existing conditions. And, I’ll build on the work I do as an attorney to cut waste and root out fraud in our healthcare system to bring down costs.
Like many of you, I have seen the devastating impact of opioids on my friends and family. That’s why in 2017, I sponsored the Opiate Abuse Prevention Act to increase regulation of these dangerous drugs and why I’ll work to improve access to medical and psychiatric help for those impacted.
Jobs & the Economy
Growing up, if you got your education, worked hard and paid your dues, there was a clear pathway to success. Unfortunately, for so many people, because of rising healthcare costs, stagnant wages and rising wealth inequality that pathway has disappeared. But, it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can and we should do better.
In the state legislature, I will fight to increase the minimum wage, so that no hard working Georgians will live in poverty. It’s also time we pass a Georgia Earned Income Tax Credit to put more money back in the hands of working people, while also ensuring equal pay and access to affordable childcare. And I’ll continue my efforts to expand access to tuition-free technical college, so that hard work can once again be the pathway to success.
Voting Rights
All Georgians deserve equal access to the ballot box, regardless of race, gender, or income. The continued efforts by Brian Kemp and Georgia Republicans to restrict voting rights are a fundamental threat to our democracy.
Because voter suppression can happen both at the state and local level, as representative, I will continue my work to establish easy access to the ballot box and fight to overturn restrictive voter ID laws while expanding access to early and absentee voting. I also believe that voter registration should be easy and permanent and that citizens should be able to vote at any precinct within their county lines.
We should always strive to make it easier to vote, not harder.
We Need a Watchdog, Not a Lapdog
I didn't go to law school to watch powerful monopolies take advantage of working families. Right now, the PSC acts like a subsidiary of Georgia Power, rubber-stamping rate hikes that pad shareholder profits while your bill goes up. I will fight for a Commission that remembers its actual job: representing the citizens of Georgia. We need to stop the gouging and keep the lights on without emptying your bank account.
Transit & Transportation
As Atlanta continues to grow, we must identify and embrace environmentally conscious and family-friendly transit solutions. Too many people in our district either don’t have reliable transportation to get to and from work or school in a reasonable period of time, or sit for hours in traffic, missing important time with family and friends. This must change.
Endless toll roads and express lanes will not solve our transportation issues. As your State Representative, I will fight for the funding needed to expand mass transit systems, including commuter rail, and I will support investment in repairing our infrastructure, including updating our roads and bridges.
Gun Safety
As a mom, I know that when our children leave for school in the morning, we shouldn’t have to worry about whether or not they will return home safe at night. And, we should not have to live in a world where “active shooter drills” are routine for our children.
But we do.
It is long past time for sensible gun laws in our state.
I strongly believe that military grade assault weapons have no place on our streets and certainly not in our schools. I will work to enact and enforce safeguards ensuring that every gun owner is properly trained, subject to background checks and has no history of violence. You can always count on me to put the safety of our children and our citizens first.
My Body, My Business
When it comes to reproductive rights, the government needs to step back. This is a private decision that belongs to women and their families, not to the state. I trust Georgia women to know what is right for their own lives. I will fight against government overreach and bans, because politicians in Atlanta have no business in your exam room.
The passage of the “Heartbeat” bill in 2019 convinced me that it is imperative we have strong, progressive women in the state legislature ready to fight for the rights of Georgia’s women.
Education
In our district, one-in-five people live in poverty. That’s unacceptable. I know firsthand that there is no better antidote to poverty than access to a quality public school education. As a graduate of Georgia’s public school system, and the first in my family to attend college, I’ll work hard to ensure that our teachers and our children have the resources they need to succeed.
In the legislature, I fought to protect and expand the HOPE Scholarship and introduced legislation that enabled more than 5,500 students to return to technical colleges all across the state. I also voted to establish training requirements for school resource officers to ensure that our students have the safest learning environment possible.
As your representative, I’ll continue to fight to surround our K-12 students with the people and resources they need to succeed. I fought and won over $80 million new dollars for Pre-K funding in the 2024 session. That also means supporting teachers and advocating for smaller class sizes and additional counseling resources. I’ll also continue to fight to raise salaries for our public school teachers and to give them more flexibility and freedom in testing, so that our state will become the best place to recruit, train and retain the most talented educators.
Civil Liberties
No matter who you are, who you love, how you identify or where you come from, you can count on me to fight for you. In the state legislature, I sponsored several anti-discrimination bills to guarantee that all Georgians can live and work freely and equally.
I am a strong and vocal opponent of the so-called “Religious Freedom” legislation that blatantly legalizes discrimination against marginalized communities. In the state legislature I joined with colleagues, constituents and the business community to beat back this shameful attempt to codify the right to discriminate in the name of religion.
As your representative, you can count on me to continue the fight for fair and equal protection under the law, and to stand strong against discrimination of every form and in any place.
Environment
We have a moral and ethical responsibility to care for our planet. Doing that means supporting policies at the regional, state and national level that not only help keep our air and water clean, but also address the emergency created by climate change.
Our state government has a duty to make sure industries like Sterigenics do not dump harmful chemicals into the environment, and to inform the public immediately if they do. I’ll fight to increase accountability and to boost investment in clean-energy jobs and methods of transportation, which will not only help protect our environment, but also invigorate our economy.
Georgia should be first in the nation on both sound environmental policy and renewable energy. You can count on me to work for a clean and environmentally-friendly Georgia.
Housing Affordability
The people who work in our district should be able to afford to live here, and those that built these communities should not be priced out of them. But as we continue to grow, many have been priced out of the market through growing rent and escalating property taxes. For our communities to thrive, we must create, preserve and sustain safe, quality, affordable housing options.
In the state legislature, I will put my experience to work to combat the shortage of affordable housing and fight against policies that lead residential taxes to sky rocket, while business property taxes hold flat.