Our Priorities

Our representatives are supposed to work for us — the people of Ohio's 11th. But when foreign nations funnel millions into our political system through PACs, they're buying votes that should belong to you. No foreign government should have a say in American policy. Period.

I will never accept donations from foreign PACs — not AIPAC, not any pro-Israel or pro-any-foreign-government PAC. Our foreign policy must be driven by what's good for the American people, not what benefits foreign lobbies who've purchased our representatives' loyalties.

• Make AIPAC register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — this is the first priority
• Ban all foreign PAC contributions to federal campaigns and enforce existing laws with real penalties
• Full transparency and disclosure for all foreign lobbying activity
• Mandatory conflict-of-interest reviews for any member who received foreign PAC money
• End American complicity in foreign atrocities — our tax dollars should not fund genocide

Big Tech, Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Wall Street have turned Congress into their personal lobbying shop. They write the laws that govern them, set the prices you pay, and then pocket billions while working families struggle to make rent. That ends with me.

This is a grassroots campaign. I don't take corporate PAC money. I never will. When I get to Washington, I'll owe nothing to the donor class — which means I can actually work for you.

• Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people, money is not speech
• Lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming corporate lobbyists
• Mandatory divestment of stocks for any member voting on legislation affecting their holdings
• No corporate PAC money — full stop — in this campaign or in my office

The tax code is a map of who has power in this country — and right now, it's been rewritten by and for the ultra-wealthy and the corporations that lobby for them. The so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" is a perfect example: corporate tax breaks disguised as economic growth, while working families foot the bill. I'm here to say: enough.

I grew up in Ashtabula. I've worked as an LPN for 12 years. I know exactly what it looks like when the wealthy write laws to protect their own wealth. That's not capitalism — it's corruption. It's time we taxed the ultra-wealthy the way they tax the rest of us.

• End the corporate tax breaks in the Big Beautiful Bill — corporations must pay their fair share
• Raise the corporate tax rate to 40%
• Institute a genuinely progressive top marginal rate for the highest earners
• Tax ultra-wealthy capital gains and dividends as ordinary earned income — if you make money, you pay taxes like the rest of us
• Enact a wealth tax on billionaires — those with over $1 billion in net assets
• Close corporate loopholes and offshore shelters — no more hiding profits overseas
• Use the revenue to fund healthcare, education, housing, and infrastructure for working families

As a nurse, I've seen what happens when people can't afford care. I've watched patients delay treatment, ration insulin, and choose between rent and prescriptions. Healthcare is not a luxury. It is a basic human right.

I know this system from the inside. I've spent 12 years as an LPN — including work as an Anesthesia Technician, Pediatric Outpatient Nurse, and Cardiac Data Abstractor. I've seen how a broken insurance system harms both patients and caregivers. And I've personally navigated it as someone who required a stent placed in my brain. The system failed people like me long before it was my turn to need it.

Healthy people keep people healthy. Sick people keep people sick. Medicare for All is not just a healthcare policy — it is an economic policy, a workforce policy, and a moral statement about what kind of country we want to be.

• Expand Medicare to cover every American from birth — no premiums, no deductibles, no network restrictions
• Include dental, vision, hearing, and mental health coverage
• Negotiate drug prices directly — end the price-gouging that kills Americans
• Eliminate medical debt — no American should go bankrupt for getting sick

Medical decisions belong to patients and their doctors — not politicians. Government has no place in the most personal decisions of our lives. And as a nurse, I can tell you with absolute certainty that restricting reproductive healthcare doesn't eliminate it — it just makes it dangerous.

Reproductive freedom isn't a partisan issue. It's a healthcare issue. It's a human rights issue. And it's an economic issue — when women can't control if and when they have children, it directly impacts their ability to work, build savings, and provide for their families.

• Codify Roe v. Wade into federal law — a woman's right to choose is non-negotiable
• Protect access to contraception and family planning services
• Fully fund Planned Parenthood and community health clinics
• End restrictions on IVF and fertility treatments
• Ensure abortion access in cases of rape, incest, and medical necessity — always

I am a single mom raising two boys. I know firsthand the impossible math of childcare costs. When you earn a working-class wage and quality childcare costs more than your rent, something is deeply, fundamentally broken.

No parent should have to choose between their paycheck and their kids. No family should be forced out of the workforce because they can't afford care. Investing in childcare is investing in every working family in Ohio's 11th.

• Working families earning the state median income will pay about $10 a day for child care
• Massively expand subsidized childcare programs and Head Start
• Support childcare workers with livable wages — the people caring for our kids deserve to make a living
• Guarantee access to childcare in rural and underserved areas

Education is the foundation of the American Dream. But we've let it become a debt trap. No young person should start their adult life tens of thousands of dollars in the hole just for trying to build a better future. And trade skills are just as valuable as a four-year degree — our policies should reflect that.

I have a son in preschool receiving therapies through an IEP for autism spectrum disorder. I know how critical early education is. Investment in education from the very beginning pays off for every family and every community.

• Universal Pre-K — every child deserves a strong start regardless of their family's income
• Fully fund public schools — end the property-tax system that guarantees unequal education
• Free community college, state universities, and accredited trade/vocational programs
• Cancel existing student debt — the burden is crushing an entire generation
• Robust special education funding and IEP support for students with disabilities

The United States is the only wealthy nation in the world without guaranteed paid family leave. Let that sink in. Every other developed nation has figured this out. We haven't — because corporate lobbyists don't want to pay for it.

When you have a baby, care for a sick parent, or deal with a serious health issue, you shouldn't have to choose between your family and your financial survival. I've lived this. I know what it costs when the safety net isn't there.

• New parents: a minimum of 6 months of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child — every newborn deserves time with their family
• All workers: 12 weeks of paid leave for illness, family caregiving, or other serious family needs
• Expand coverage to include chosen family, not just biological or legal family
• Protect workers from retaliation for taking leave
• Funded through a family leave insurance pool paid by employers, supplemented by a federal appropriation — the same model that makes Social Security work

Climate change is not a future problem. It's here, it's happening, and communities across Ohio are already paying the price. A just transition to clean energy creates good union jobs while saving the planet our kids will inherit. That's not a contradiction — it's a blueprint.

And we need to talk about data centers. The explosion of AI and crypto infrastructure is consuming massive amounts of water and electricity in communities like ours — often without the jobs and tax revenue being promised. We need regulation that puts Ohio communities first.

• Pass the Green New Deal — invest in clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure
• Create union-wage green jobs in Ohio's 11th — retrofit buildings, build transit, modernize the grid
• Hold data centers accountable for water usage, power consumption, and local impact
• Rejoin and strengthen international climate agreements
• Environmental justice — communities of color and working-class neighborhoods bear the brunt of pollution; that ends now

Nobody should be unhoused. Nobody. When hedge funds buy up neighborhoods and turn homes into financial instruments, ordinary people get squeezed out. Housing is a human right, not an investment vehicle for billionaires.

Ohio's 11th has communities that were once thriving working-class neighborhoods. We can rebuild that. But it requires fighting back against corporate landlords, investing in public housing, and making sure working families can afford to stay in the communities they built.

• Massive federal investment in affordable and public housing construction
• Tax penalties for vacant properties owned by corporations
• Limit corporate ownership of single-family homes
• Expand and strengthen tenant protections and rent stabilization
• End homelessness through Housing First programs — permanent housing is cheaper than emergency services

If your job doesn't pay enough for you to live, that's not a personal failing — that's exploitation. When CEOs earn 400 times what their workers make, that's not a free market — it's a rigged game. The minimum wage hasn't kept up with productivity or inflation in decades. We fix that now.

And we need to seriously talk about Universal Basic Income — a floor beneath which no American can fall. The wealth this country creates should be shared, not hoarded by the few who own everything.

• Federal minimum wage of at least $17/hour, as proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders — indexed to median wages thereafter
• Strengthen unions — workers who organize have higher wages, better benefits, and more dignity
• Explore and implement Universal Basic Income legislation — a floor beneath which no American can fall
• End tipped wages — all workers deserve a full, living wage before tips
• Worker representation on corporate boards — you build the company, you have a say in it

As a mom, as a nurse, as someone who has cared for children — I am done with the cowardice in Washington on this issue. We can protect the Second Amendment and protect our kids at the same time. These are not mutually exclusive. Congress has just been too bought by the gun lobby to try.

Mass shootings are not inevitable. Every other wealthy nation has figured this out. We refuse to — not because the solutions don't exist, but because politicians value their NRA ratings more than children's lives. That stops with me.

• Universal background checks — no exceptions, no loopholes
• Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
• Red flag laws that allow courts to temporarily remove guns from dangerous individuals
• Safe storage requirements and gun safety education
• End the gun industry's immunity from civil liability

The Golden Rule is simple: treat others the way you want to be treated. Human dignity is not a political position — it's a moral foundation. I will fight for the rights of every person in Ohio's 11th, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or immigration status.

Living by the Golden Rule means speaking out against injustice when it's uncomfortable, protecting those who cannot defend themselves, and upholding the dignity of every person. That's not radical. It's basic decency — and it's exactly what we should demand of our representatives.

• Full federal equality for LGBTQ+ Americans — the Equality Act must pass
• End racial disparities in policing, sentencing, and the criminal legal system
• Protect voting rights — democracy requires every eligible citizen's voice
• Disability rights and full ADA enforcement — accessibility is not optional
• Stand against genocide and human rights violations — anywhere, by anyone

ICE as it currently operates is not a law enforcement agency — it's a terror apparatus. It separates families. It detains children in inhumane conditions. It targets communities that have been here for decades. None of this makes us safer. All of it makes us less humane.

Comprehensive immigration reform means acknowledging that our immigration system is broken because we want it to be — a frightened, precarious undocumented workforce is a workforce with no power to demand better wages or working conditions. That serves the corporate interests I'm running against. It doesn't serve working families.

• Abolish ICE
• Prosecute individuals guilty of abuse, misconduct, or civil rights violations during their tenure
• Immigration enforcement and adjudication should be handled by a body of competent lawyers and judges — not a paramilitary force
• The future of the Department of Homeland Security is bleak — it may need to be dismantled entirely and reorganized into smaller, accountable agencies
• Create a clear, fair pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here
• Address the root causes of migration: poverty, violence, and climate displacement
• Treat asylum seekers with the dignity that international law requires

Prisons should be about justice and rehabilitation — not profit. The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation on earth, and it is not an accident. Black and Brown Americans are disproportionately incarcerated, and their sentences are disproportionately harsh compared to their counterparts. This for-profit system targeting marginalized communities must end.

We cannot talk about human rights, equal justice, or the American Dream while we allow private companies to profit from locking people in cages. The incentive to incarcerate is an incentive to target — and that is exactly what has happened.

• End private, for-profit prisons — incarceration must never be a revenue stream
• Reform mandatory minimum sentencing laws that disproportionately harm communities of color
• Invest in rehabilitation, education, and mental health treatment inside prisons
• Restore voting rights for formerly incarcerated people
• End the school-to-prison pipeline through community investment and restorative justice programs

America is the most powerful nation on earth. That power should be used to lead with diplomacy and humanity — not to wage endless wars that enrich defense contractors while killing civilians abroad and gutting investment at home. We have to end our imperial approach and instead focus our efforts on repairing our own country.

Our military budget is larger than the next several nations combined. Meanwhile, Americans can't afford healthcare, childcare, or housing. We must ask ourselves: what are we actually defending, and for whom?

• Audit and significantly reduce the bloated Pentagon budget — redirect savings to domestic needs
• Prioritize diplomacy, international law, and multilateral cooperation over military intervention
• End no-bid defense contracts and corporate profiteering from war
• Fully fund the VA and end veteran homelessness — we owe it to those who served
• Rebuild America first: infrastructure, healthcare, education, housing