The best way to support the residents of Medford is to find solutions to the affordable housing crisis. I will work to support initiatives that keep people in their homes and allow residents across the income spectrum to survive and thrive.

I will work collaboratively with developers, landlords, homeowners, and renters to find solutions and compromises that prioritize the health and wellbeing of all our city’s residents.

The primary role of City Council is to approve the budget each year. I will prioritize sending money where it is most needed: our schools, our programs, and our social support network.

Gone are the days where we compare ourselves to Somerville or Malden. I will work to bring more funds to the city through approving businesses based in Medford and capitalize on newly issued zoning reforms that allow us to increase community resources, support small business, and keep Medford beautiful.

As the assistant director of the Malden Warming Center, I have witnessed first-hand how difficult it can be to access services for Medford’s most vulnerable populations, such as folks facing the threat of homelessness and dealing with addiction and mental health challenges.

As your city councilor, I will work to support more robust services and to ensure that those services are more accessible to the people who need them. Medford can do better and I will fight to make it happen.

When I worked for Medford’s Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Marice Edouard-Vincent, I observed the hard work the teachers and administrators put in every day in Medford’s public schools.

I took the minutes at every school committee meeting and I saw that no matter how big the policy goals of the school committee were, they couldn’t achieve them without a boost to the school district’s budget.

After the passage of Proposition 2 ½ override, I will ensure the City delivers on its promise of increasing that budget to make Medford Public Schools the best they can be.

One of the goals of our charter review is to make it easier for minorities and underrepresented groups to represent their neighborhoods in our local government.

Today, Medford’s City Charter, the document that acts as our city’s constitution, dictates that all seats in the city council and school committee are at-large, which means every candidate competes across the whole city. This makes it tough to run as a person with a full time job, or with a family.

In my first term, the City, in collaboration with residents, developed a new Charter for Medford, slated for the November ballot. Passing this Charter would make it easier for those who want to serve their community to run for office as a ward councilor or a district school committee member. This was the promise of my first term, and I am proud to have kept it.