This campaign is about building relationships and centering people and neighborhoods in our decision-making. We live in a great city. We have incredible parks, libraries, schools and arts. All Roanokers deserve to share in the high quality of life that so many of us enjoy.
Working and middle class families, young people, and many of our seniors are feeling strained from rapidly rising rent prices and a lack of affordable homes available for purchase. We need to both build more new affordable homes and apartments as well as work aggressively to reoccupy the thousands of vacant buildings that blight many of our neighborhoods...
Providing children and adolescents with more after-school programming and recreational opportunities is a long term investment in our families and communities. Our kids need positive influences, support, and supervised social interactions and playtime with their peers...
Our parks, trails, and greenspaces are among Roanoke’s greatest assets. It will be a top priority for me to ensure our Parks and Recreation Department, specifically the Urban Forestry Section, has what it needs to protect and expand these resources for future generations to enjoy...
I was born in Roanoke and raised in Franklin County. Early in life I often spent time at a small restaurant run by my Granny Inge in Southeast, on Jamison Ave. Growing up, my dad first worked for Norfolk & Western and then became a deputy with the Franklin County Sheriff's Department. My mom worked as a cashier at the Food Lion on Bennington St SE. To earn extra income, my family cleaned a psychiatry office in Old Southwest - not far from where I live today.
After graduating from FCHS I continued on to Virginia Tech, where I majored in Environmental Policy & Planning. At Tech I became involved with the VT Young Democrats, eventually being elected President of our chapter. In 2004, I took a semester off to work as a youth organizer for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Albuquerque, New Mexico…
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