Candidate for New Mexico State Senate - District 26 in 2024 New Mexico Primary Election.
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Get StartedCrime in Albuquerque remains a complex, enduring challenge that warrants a bold and persistent response. We must adopt a data-driven, comprehensive approach to building safer communities that is proactive and creative rather than merely reactive. All our neighbors, housed and unhoused alike, have the right to feel safe in the city they call home. Right now, many don’t, and that uncomfortable reality demands change. Learn more
Optimizing the accessibility of behavioral health services including anti-violence and addiction treatment programs. Learn more
Partnering with first responders to scale up recruitment and implement retention strategies. Learn more
Codifying a MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) task force into state law. Learn more
Delivering funding of a full scope of mental health resources and support programs to law enforcement, firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians. Learn more
Promoting accountability for all offenders while mitigating the failures of one-size-fits-all policies that feed into systemic revolving-door inefficiencies. Learn more
Push for investment in state asset-building initiatives including individual development accounts and child savings accounts. Learn more
Nurture job readiness through investments in meaningful, paid internships for the 20% of 16-to-24-year-olds in state who are neither working nor in school. Learn more
Create a paid social work residency program to ensure that schools have a mental health workforce ready to support students confronting adverse childhood experiences. Learn more
Empower community schools to continue their model of holistic service to New Mexico communities by bolstering resources for institutions exiting pilot phase funding. Learn more
Reduce school and class sizes in order to grow teacher-to-pupil ratios most conducive to learning. Learn more
Sustain Career Technical Education through “above-the-line” funding as part of the State Equalization Guarantee. Learn more
Enhance training and improve faculty pay. Learn more
Enacting Constitutional and common-sense gun safety reform. Learn more
Pursue funding to help local municipalities preserve and expand affordable housing. Learn more
Center priorities that will help women and families progress toward home ownership and cultivate first-generational wealth. Learn more
Innovate modernizations of the state tax code and drive in-state manufacturing growth, both of which will help small and local businesses compete. Learn more
Spearhead the charge for paid family and medical leave as well as for adequate funding to ensure robust enforcement of minimum wage. Learn more
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