The best way to support the residents of Medford is to find solutions to the affordable housing crisis. I will work to support initiatives that keep people in their homes and allow residents across the income spectrum to survive and thrive. I will work collaboratively with developers, landlords, homeowners, and renters to find solutions and compromises that prioritize the health and wellbeing of all our city’s residents.

The primary role of City Council is to approve the budget each year. I will prioritize sending money where it is most needed: our schools, our programs, and our social support network. I will work to bring more funds to the city through approving businesses based in Medford. I support allowing a Proposition 2 1/2 override to appear on the ballot so that Medford voters can have their voices heard.

As the assistant director of the Malden Warming Center, I have witnessed first-hand how difficult it can be to access services for Medford’s most vulnerable populations, such as folks facing the threat of homelessness and dealing with addiction and mental health challenges. As your city councilor, I will work to support more robust services and to ensure that those services are more accessible to the people who need them. Medford can do better and I will fight to make it happen.

When I worked for Medford’s Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Marice Edouard-Vincent, I observed the hard work the teachers and administrators put in every day in Medford’s public schools. I took the minutes at every school committee meeting and I saw that no matter how big the policy goals of the school committee were, they couldn’t achieve them without a boost to the school district’s budget. I will prioritize fully funding the school budget and increasing that budget to make Medford Public Schools the best they can be.

One of the goals of charter review is to make it easier for minorities and underrepresented groups to represent their neighborhoods in our local government. Today, Medford’s city charter, the document that acts as our city’s constitution, dictates that all seats in the city council and school committee are at-large, which means every candidate competes across the whole city. This makes it tough to run as a person with a full time job, or with a family. Charter review would make it possible for our city charter to ease the burden on candidates and allow more access to municipal candidates that more accurately reflect our city’s residents.

One of the reasons I wanted to run for city council is because it is 2023 and Medford has only ever had 2 women on the city council at a time since its founding. If the full slate of Our Revolution candidates is voted in, we will have a majority woman Medford City Council for the first time in history!