“I’m running to make Cleveland work better—for everyone. That means safer streets, more housing options, and city services that serve us all.”
Streets That Put People First
Safe, walkable streets are essential for a thriving and connected community like ours. Every resident deserves to enjoy our neighborhoods and travel safely—whether you're 8 weeks old or 80 years old, whether you use a stroller or a wheelchair, and whether you’re walking, biking, or taking transit.
On city council, I’ll push for traffic-calming measures of all kinds: more speed tables, curb extensions, roundabouts, and raised crosswalks. I’ll also advocate for reduced speed limits, truck prohibitions on our residential streets, and enhanced traffic code enforcement.
Together, we can reduce crashes and keep all our neighbors safe.
Everyone Deserves to Feel Safe
Everyone deserves to feel safe, no matter who they are or where they live.
That starts with investing in well-trained, well-resourced police who serve our communities fairly and constitutionally.
At the same time, we need to proactively build safer communities by addressing the root causes of crime through violence interruption, mental health services, and diversion programs. We can respond to more mental health crises with social workers rather than rely only on law enforcement. And we should utilize targeted environmental design like street lighting improvements to cut down on crimes of opportunity.
Fundamentally, we need to focus on the needs of our community’s children. Too many car break-ins, for example, are committed by folks under 18 years old. And like many cities, our after-school and teen support programs have been stretched thin by state and federal cuts. It is imperative that we reinvest in youth programming, pipelines to jobs, and other support structures–to help every child make good choices.
It’s also too easy to speed into our neighborhoods, cause trouble, and speed away. More traffic calming measures can make that harder and make our community less of a target. It’s tough to join a street takeover and do wheelies on a dirt bike if you have to keep bouncing over speed tables.
And as a former co-chair of my neighborhood block club, I’ve seen firsthand the value of consistent dialogue with City Hall about our local safety concerns. On city council, I’ll work to make those kinds of community-driven relationships the norm across every neighborhood.
Meeting the Moment on the Housing Crisis
Across the Near West Side, more and more families are struggling to find a place to live: folks just starting their careers, growing families putting down roots, and longtime neighbors who built these communities. More housing options will ease the pressures that have driven up rents and property taxes. As a resident raising a family here and the former co-chair of my block club, I know how much the strength of our neighborhoods depends on the ability of people to build a life here: to move in, to stay, to grow.
That’s why, as your councilmember, I’ll fight for an all-of-the-above housing strategy—yes to market-rate, but also yes to affordable and public housing. Yes to using public land to build more homes, and yes to putting vacant properties and short-term rentals back into the mainstream housing market. Yes to more housing—and yes to strong fair housing laws and tenant protections.
If we want to preserve the diversity and vitality that define our community, we need to ensure that all members of our community can call our neighborhoods their home—regardless of background, family size, or income level.
City Services that Serve Us All
Cleveland City Hall has made real strides in recent years to better serve Clevelanders—like the new 311 hotline, the Open Data portal, and the fact that the city budget no longer uses clip art. But there’s more work to do.
And as your councilmember, I’ll be a collaborative governing partner and a champion for progress: new tools, new technology, and investing in our city staff who do the work we need in our neighborhoods.
The day-to-day work of permits, planning, and code enforcement doesn’t make headlines, but it can make a family’s decision to move to our community—or to leave it. That’s why it’s my priority, too.
We need representation on city council that will fight hard to get us the services we need today, and fight just as hard for structural reforms to ensure that we can get even better services tomorrow. I want to bring my experience in local government and my personal commitments to our neighborhoods to be that fighter for you.
Standing With All Our Neighbors
Finally, in these challenging times, cities are taking on more than they ever have. Opportunistic politicians in D.C. and Columbus are on the offense, and so many of our neighbors are under threat: immigrants, union members, and transgender people today, and everyone else tomorrow.
As your councilmember, I'll stand up for a city that embraces and defends anyone who finds themselves targeting or marginalized. And with my experience navigating these thorny questions at City Hall, I’ll be ready no matter what comes next. Clevelanders deserve to know that their councilmember has got their back.
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Join us in backing our vision for a thriving Near West Side that all its residents can share in. Volunteer, donate, and spread the word—together, we ensure that our community is more safe, more affordable, more just, and more vibrant than ever.