Charlottesville’s been my home — and the community I love — for all my life.

I grew up in the Charlottesville area and attended Albemarle High School. After graduating from William & Mary, I moved back to Charlottesville to work for Habitat for Humanity Virginia where I helped manage affordable housing projects throughout the state.

Shortly after the 2016 election, I co-founded Indivisible Charlottesville in order to fight for progressive change at a local, state, and national level. I increasingly saw how change has to begin at a local level and got involved in local organizing campaigns around affordable housing, climate change, economic inequality, and other vital issues in Charlottesville.

I ran for City Council in 2019 as an extension of that community work. It’s been a difficult few years for Charlottesville — and the entire country. But over the past three years we’ve made significant positive progress. We’ve invested over $10 million annually in affordable housing (the highest per-capita investment in affordable housing of any city in Virginia), adopted a Climate Action Plan that lays out the path to carbon neutrality in Charlottesville by 2050, and made historic investments in our public schools.

But there’s a lot of unfinished work.

Charlottesville remains a city where too many people lack economic opportunity. Over the next four years, I believe we can turn our affordable housing plans into reality, take bold action on climate change, invest in community wealth building strategies, and support our schools.

Progress only happens together, as a community. We have major opportunities to make Charlottesville a better city in the coming years.

Let’s finish the work and get it done!