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Vision for a Better Tomorrow 

Essential to justice is universal equality, which requires that every person be treated according to the same standards and with the same respect, regardless of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or any other social category. This motivates me in the following essential areas: Supporting law enforcement and public safety efforts to protect communities while upholding civil rights and just practices. Defending reproductive freedom and ensuring access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare for all. Advocating for the rights, dignity, and care of veterans who have served their country. Promoting the well-being and supporting the needs of senior citizens in their later years.

Economy

  • Raise the statewide minimum wage to lift families out of poverty

  • Invest in job training and workforce development programs in underserved areas  

  • Support the growth of minority and women-owned businesses through technical training and improved access to capital

  • Strengthen consumer protections and crack down on predatory lending 

Education

  • Increase funding to public schools in low-income areas to improve resources and opportunities

  • Expand access to early childhood education programs and pre-K statewide

  • Increase teacher pay and incentivize highly qualified teachers

  • Reform student disciplinary processes to address racial inequities

  • Advocating for the Leandro Case

Family Justice

  • Family Court Reform

  • Increase judges and mediators to prevent case backlogs.

  • Legal aid funding to ensure all families can access counsel in civil cases like custody disputes and help for parents facing child protection intervention.

  • Establish Foster Kids’ Bill of Rights addressing healthcare, education, housing

  • Increase investments in child abuse prevention programs and child protective services. 

  • Increase tax credits like the Child tax Credit to help family’s meet children's basic needs like food, housing, and childcare

Housing

  • Increase affordable housing stock through new mixed-income developments and community land trusts

  • rent control measures and tenant protections against displacement and eviction

  • Address homelessness through supportive housing programs and services 

  • Develop fair housing rules to combat housing discrimination 

Medicaid Expansion

  • Launched in NC December 1, 2023, and within 2 months over 344,000 were enrolled.

  • Medicaid expansion (ME) is linked to significantly better health coverage rates

  • ME can advance racial equity.

  • ME provides an especially critical boost to rural hospitals, many of which are at risk of closing.

  • Medicaid expansion helps protect people from catastrophically high out-of-pocket medical costs.

  • ME is linked to earlier detection, diagnosis, and treatment of serious medical conditions.

  • We must protect ME for North Carolina!

Mental Health

  • Declare mental health a priority public health issue and destigmatize mental illness

  • Added a policy to reform Medicaid rates/policies to better incentivize providers to accept Medicaid patients, aiming to expand access by retaining and recruiting providers

  • Invest in school counseling, crisis intervention, and wrap-around care 

  • Develop community-based mental health outreach tailored for marginalized groups

  • Reform laws regarding involuntary commitment and psychiatric holds to emphasize patient rights

Concerns from the listening tour :

*Address Human Trafficking 
*Historic Preservation
*Homeless Prevention  
*Greenway's & Sidewalks
*Transportation
* Environment  

*Public Health
*Public Safety
*Education  
*​Growth & Development  
*Small Business 
*Lower Taxes

* Mental Health
* At Risk Youth
* 1st Amendment
* 2nd Amendment 
* Prolife 4 All Life
 

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