| I'm running to become your next state Representative and ensure everyone has an opportunity to thrive.
My roots in Duluth and our communities run deep. I was born and raised in Duluth to my Ojibwe mother and Mexican father, and was raised by my fiercely strong grandmother who was a hospital nutrition worker turned educator. I am the child of a Mexican father who worked as a union electrician and an Ojibwe mother, who with an eighth grade education, worked as a housekeeper and child care provider.
My grandmother showed me how to trailblaze through any obstacle, something I've done as both a first-generation graduate from the University of Minnesota Duluth, going on to earn a Master's of Business Administration from the College of St. Scholastica, and as the first Latina-Ojibwe to serve on the Executive Leadership Team in the City of Duluth's history.
A voice like mine has never represented District 8B.
I live with my blended family in the home we own in the Hunter's Park neighborhood with my strong-standing 8 year old child, my life partner Samantha, and our pets.
I will be a champion for Duluth by standing up for all of us and for the land, air, and waters of this place.
As your state legislator, I will use my experience harnessing local, grassroots effort to directly influence, write, and shape both local and statewide policy to drive home community-led and community-centered solutions. |