Why I’m Running…

I’m running for Durham City Council (Ward 1) to fight for community over corporations and progress through sustainability.

As an independent candidate, nonprofit founder, Marketing Director, author in social psychology, musician, and mother, I bring more than a decade of experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and leading initiatives that put people first.

My campaign is centered on protecting tenants and land, combating crime-bred addiction with compassion, addressing the housing crisis and investing in neighborhoods too often left behind.

I strive to be a beacon of integrity in politics and to ensure Durham’s systems truly reflect and serve its people.

My Priorities

1) Minimizing corporate government contracts to give buying power back to the people 

This addresses the rise of unaffordable condos, housing, and corporate developments that displace too many Durham residents and prevent young adults from gaining equity through homeownership

2) Protecting and strengthening Tenants Rights

This addresses slumlords who profit off low-income families while neglecting necessary repairs and living conditions and compels absentee investment property owners to restore their abandoned and uninhabited houses

3) Combating crime-bred addiction in unhoused communities

This addresses the unfortunate increase in our unhoused neighbors, contributing to local crime through vulture drug dealers who prey on and sell within their own neighborhoods, causing broader community safety concerns 

4) Investing in low-income neighborhoods through repairing sidewalks, roads and public parks

This addresses years of neglect in low-income neighborhoods, ensuring they get the repairs and resources they deserve