District 4 is everything in Portland west of the Willamette River and also areas of Southeast Portland near and including Sellwood, Eastmoreland, Reed, and Ardenwald/Johnson Creek. As of August 2023, Portland adopted a new plan that increased the number of City Council seats from four to 12 and split the city into districts. This change allows for three council members from each district to serve and represent their constituents. To learn more, click here.

As part of the Portland transition, your local government is in a unique state of change. From adding eight new city council seats to implementing ranked-choice voting, you will be watching a wholly new form of government emerge. Already, I am seeing more candidates supporting each other rather than competing.

For this change to succeed, we need strong and adaptive leaders who stand up to industrial interests in favor of long-term solutions that benefit all Portlanders and the local ecosystem.

For more information, visit portland.gov/transition

Learn more about how I’m raising awareness for local climate issues here.

Though I know that climate-related matters are not the only issues I will vote on as a City Council member, they will inform the lens through which I view all issues. To learn more about my core values and social activism, click here.

I have no desire to ask for money from people who are already struggling to pay rent. Even filing with small donor elections means that I would need to collect funds from more than 250 people before the City will match my funds. While I appreciate that this method of funding exists, I want to run my campaign on less than that.

I aim to run on less than $1,000 because I believe that a powerful campaign doesn’t need thousands of dollars to back it.

Instead, I trust in the strength of building community and raising awareness of my campaign through listening to neighborhood associations, unions, and other local organizations in Portland.

We are very lucky to have the voter pamphlet as a method to educate the public. That is truly democracy in action, and I am also relying heavily on that. This is a new style of election with ranked-choice voting, and it’s anybody’s race.

I would rather people donate to their local mutual aid efforts or charities than give their money to a political candidate. If you want to support me and my campaign, tell your friends and family in District 4 that I’m running and educate yourself about Portland’s local climate issues.

I am focusing my professional efforts into running this campaign and meeting with the people of Portland.

As such, I took time off from work to serve as my own campaign manager and treasurer with support from volunteers.

I have no desire to crowd out discourse on actual issues or pay divisive social media corporations for digital ads, and I refuse to use mailers and other materials that are not eco-friendly.

I used my own graphic design skills to create this website to save on costs.

To date, my expenses are as follows:

-$300 for web hosting and domain names

Future expected expenses:

-$375 to file in the voter pamphlets for Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties

-$50 for mileage and bus fare to attend events

If you would like to help with these specific expenses, please send a message to me through my contact form.

“The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area" (Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable, 2018).

It’s not enough just to acknowledge the peoples who originally tended this land—we need to give them a voice at the table, at the very minimum. In collaborating with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and other indigenous organizations, I hope to ensure the tribes are included in every decision that affects them and the land. However, I have found it difficult to get in touch, so please help me connect if possible.

The current Tribal Relations branch of the City government offers little-to-no transparent information about how it is actively collaborating with the tribes to protect their rights, uphold treaties, and listen to elders. I would like to see these efforts expanded significantly with more public education about indigenous culture.

Absolutely. As a person who has attended a dozen pro-Palestinian rallies since October 2023, I would love to see our City Council sign a ceasefire resolution like the City Council of Portland, Maine.

I believe that local government officials have a duty to put pressure on other forms of government, state and federal, to communicate what our constituents want.

This is a local issue in that we have many Palestinian Americans here in Oregon, and Israel is one of Oregon’s biggest export partners. Additionally, the Oregon-Israel Business Alliance is located in Portland.

And, while a permanent ceasefire and additional humanitarian aid is the first focus, ultimately, we need full Palestinian liberation and the end of occupation.

I have heard other candidates say that a ceasefire resolution is “just words,” but words are powerful, especially coming from elected leaders.