Strong Communities

Our community binds us together, from our network of friends and family to our ties as state citizens who share resources and work together across Kentucky. Community turns homes into neighborhoods, and neighborhoods into unified towns and cities. We can and must work to strengthen our communities. Strong communities are ones where no one worries about choosing between rent and seeing their doctor. Strong communities means solidarity across lines of race, gender, sexuality, language, and nation of origin. Strong communities guarantee the right to reproductive freedom and are places where trans and queer people are safe. 

I will help build strong communities, here in Louisville and throughout Kentucky.

As a State Representative I will fight for:

• Access to affordable healthcare through Medicaid expansion and ultimately state participation in a national universal, single-payer health program: Medicare for All. 
  

•  I will remain a strong advocate for reproductive freedom and the statewide return of abortion rights. 

• I will push for a statewide Fairness Law and the repeal of SB150 to protect the rights, dignity, and safety of Kentucky’s trans youth and families.

• An end to noncriminal deportation as well as an end to cooperation with punitive federal agencies such as ICE.

• I will continue my lifelong commitment to a free Palestine and will do everything in my power—both as a legislator and as an advocate and organizer—to support that struggle. I support the repeal of SJR 55 to restore Kentucky students’ inalienable right to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza. I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and will continue to call for an end to the genocide, an end to apartheid, and for justice for all people in the region. I stand with those—especially in Israel and Palestine—who fight for an integrated, secular, peaceful and democratic future.

• With medical marijuana now legal in Kentucky, we must take the next step: legalization, regulation, and taxation of recreational cannabis.

• Increased professionalization standards for the Kentucky State Police, the highest law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth, bringing an end to under-regulated private training, an increase in education and experience requirements, and a requirement that body and vehicle cameras are always on and widely subject to open records requests.