I'manAdvocate,notaPolitician.
I'm running as an ordinary person who just wants everyone to thrive and be able to live in Palo Alto. I don't seek political power. I fight for people's power.
“I am getting in good trouble now.”
Raymond Goins, quoting Congressman John Lewis
An organizer, not a career politician.
I walk out my door to see people that were once my neighbors, now homeless across the street from the place they once called home, waiting for help to arrive.
Because I drive Uber, I often find myself in conversations with workers as I transport them out of this beautiful city. They all voice a desire to afford to live here, but can't on a worker's wage.
I often find myself surrounded by community members who voice a need for change, but because they aren't wealthy, well connected, or Ivy League educated, they feel their voice won't be listened to.
Out on the corner, not behind a desk.
“I am not a politician, I am a community organizer. I don't seek political power. I fight for people's power.”
I am running as an ordinary person who just wants everyone to thrive and be able to live in Palo Alto.
Housing as a right. Transit that works. A city that cares.
Housing Is a Right
Rent stabilization so people who live here can remain here, dense housing integrated with our city's natural beauty, and a vacancy tax so landlords can't sit on empty homes.
Transit That Actually Works
A real, enforced citywide residential TDM plan: trip-reduction targets, free transit passes, secure bike parking, and unbundled parking so no one is forced to own a car.
Checks and Balances
Annual reporting with real consequences when developments don't perform, so every resident has an opportunity to achieve stability in the way that works for them.
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish…
Those words were written through a lens of profound inequality. When the United States Constitution was drafted in 1787, enslaved people, women, Indigenous peoples, and many poor men were excluded from full political participation and equal rights.
The fabric of democracy that now provides legal protections did not evolve on its own. It changed because ordinary people organized, resisted, voted, marched, worked, and demanded that the nation live up to its stated ideals.
Ordinary people need representation. That's why I'm running for Palo Alto City Council, not as a politician, but as a community organizer who believes this city can still live up to its ideals for everyone who calls it home.
“I am getting in good trouble now.”
This campaign runs on people, not power.
No wealth, no connections, no Ivy League degree required to be heard. Join a campaign built by ordinary people who want everyone to thrive in Palo Alto.