1st-term Accomplishments: Real Results
I’ve never treated public service as a platform for slogans. It’s about showing up, doing the work, and producing real results. Here are just some of the things we’ve accomplished together:
🏘️ Housing, Development & Neighborhood Renewal
• AO 2025-35: Passed the city’s largest-ever housing tax incentive—15–25-year abatements for multifamily housing in key corridors like Muldoon and Tudor.
• AO 2024-111: Updated the Transit-Supportive Development Corridors map to include and merge East Anchorage priority zones.
• Created a Municipal Housing Fund to make strategic investments in housing development.
• Targeted vacant and abandoned properties for cleanup and redevelopment—turning blight into opportunity.
• Advanced humane housing solutions—championing high-quality micro-housing and safe shelters over failed mass tent strategies.
🚍 Transit, Mobility & Infrastructure
• Youth Fare Ordinance: Delivered free public transit for all youth 18 and under—effective July 2025.
• Working to extend free transit to seniors every day of the week.
• AO 2024-51(S): Legalized and regulated shared micromobility—bringing e-scooters and e-bikes to Anchorage.
• AO 2024-20(S): Passed new legal protections for bus drivers and transit operators.
• Championed pedestrian safety upgrades, trail investments, and East Anchorage’s fair share of capital improvement funding.
🛡️ Public Safety, Crisis Response & Behavioral Health
• Backed critical investments in mobile crisis response teams and co-responder models.
• AR 2025-191: Directed legal review of the State of Alaska’s failure to provide essential behavioral health services.
• Led on care-first strategies, supplementing traditional enforcement with prevention and treatment.
• Rejected failed shelter approaches and championed pathways to stability and dignity.
📈 Economic Development & Strategic Planning
• Chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee
• AR 2025-159: Authored the Anchorage Economic Development Framework—anchored in truth, stackable ROI, pre-emptive resilience, and equity.
• Embedded the framework across policy: housing, transit, workforce, food systems, and arts.
• Advanced small business relief, reduced red tape, and supported placemaking projects that stimulate the local economy.
• Supported recognition for worker cooperatives.
🌱 Food Security & Local Economy
• AO 2025-62: Passed first-in-city tax incentive for urban agriculture.
• Elevated food sovereignty as a core city priority—for public health, resilience, and equity.
• Championed over 2 million in budget cuts aimed at reducing overtime costs.
🎨 Creative Economy & Cultural Investment
• Led Anchorage’s adoption of the Music Census, integrating arts into economic strategy.
• Funded murals, public art, and school partnerships that revitalize neighborhoods.
• Removed regulatory barriers for small arts businesses and creative placemaking.
👩💼 Workforce & Government Reform
• Vice Chair of Quality Municipal Services, Ethics, & Elections Committee
• Secured budget and led Anchorage’s first municipal workforce review—addressing recruitment, retention, and service delivery.
• Ended marijuana testing for most non-safety-sensitive municipal jobs—modernizing outdated hiring practices.
• Championed more responsive government operations, departmental efficiency, and public accountability.
🌐 National Leadership, Local Impact
• Municipal Liaison to the National Association of Counties (NACo)
• Vice Chair of NACo’s Community, Workforce & Economic Development Housing Sub-Committee
• Member of NACo’s Arts & Culture Innovation Council
• Elevated federal barriers like the Jones Act that raise Alaska’s cost of living, calling for reforms.
• Leveraged national tools to address economic mobility, disaster resilience, and preemptive development at the local level.
👣 Grounded in East Anchorage
As a former diplomat and educator, I bring a global perspective and local commitment to public service. I've represented Anchorage nationally on issues of economic resilience, disaster recovery, and municipal reform, while remaining deeply rooted in East Anchorage’s neighborhoods and day-to-day concerns.
This work is personal.
East Anchorage isn’t just where I serve, it’s home.
I’ve never treated public service as a platform for slogans. It’s about showing up, doing the work, and producing real results. Here are just some of the things we’ve accomplished together:
🏘️ Housing, Development & Neighborhood Renewal
• AO 2025-35: Passed the city’s largest-ever housing tax incentive—15–25-year abatements for multifamily housing in key corridors like Muldoon and Tudor.
• AO 2024-111: Updated the Transit-Supportive Development Corridors map to include and merge East Anchorage priority zones.
• Created a Municipal Housing Fund to make strategic investments in housing development.
• Targeted vacant and abandoned properties for cleanup and redevelopment—turning blight into opportunity.
• Advanced humane housing solutions—championing high-quality micro-housing and safe shelters over failed mass tent strategies.
🚍 Transit, Mobility & Infrastructure
• Youth Fare Ordinance: Delivered free public transit for all youth 18 and under—effective July 2025.
• Working to extend free transit to seniors every day of the week.
• AO 2024-51(S): Legalized and regulated shared micromobility—bringing e-scooters and e-bikes to Anchorage.
• AO 2024-20(S): Passed new legal protections for bus drivers and transit operators.
• Championed pedestrian safety upgrades, trail investments, and East Anchorage’s fair share of capital improvement funding.
🛡️ Public Safety, Crisis Response & Behavioral Health
• Backed critical investments in mobile crisis response teams and co-responder models.
• AR 2025-191: Directed legal review of the State of Alaska’s failure to provide essential behavioral health services.
• Led on care-first strategies, supplementing traditional enforcement with prevention and treatment.
• Rejected failed shelter approaches and championed pathways to stability and dignity.
📈 Economic Development & Strategic Planning
• Chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee
• AR 2025-159: Authored the Anchorage Economic Development Framework—anchored in truth, stackable ROI, pre-emptive resilience, and equity.
• Embedded the framework across policy: housing, transit, workforce, food systems, and arts.
• Advanced small business relief, reduced red tape, and supported placemaking projects that stimulate the local economy.
• Supported recognition for worker cooperatives.
🌱 Food Security & Local Economy
• AO 2025-62: Passed first-in-city tax incentive for urban agriculture.
• Elevated food sovereignty as a core city priority—for public health, resilience, and equity.
• Championed over 2 million in budget cuts aimed at reducing overtime costs.
🎨 Creative Economy & Cultural Investment
• Led Anchorage’s adoption of the Music Census, integrating arts into economic strategy.
• Funded murals, public art, and school partnerships that revitalize neighborhoods.
• Removed regulatory barriers for small arts businesses and creative placemaking.
👩💼 Workforce & Government Reform
• Vice Chair of Quality Municipal Services, Ethics, & Elections Committee
• Secured budget and led Anchorage’s first municipal workforce review—addressing recruitment, retention, and service delivery.
• Ended marijuana testing for most non-safety-sensitive municipal jobs—modernizing outdated hiring practices.
• Championed more responsive government operations, departmental efficiency, and public accountability.
🌐 National Leadership, Local Impact
• Municipal Liaison to the National Association of Counties (NACo)
• Vice Chair of NACo’s Community, Workforce & Economic Development Housing Sub-Committee
• Member of NACo’s Arts & Culture Innovation Council
• Elevated federal barriers like the Jones Act that raise Alaska’s cost of living, calling for reforms.
• Leveraged national tools to address economic mobility, disaster resilience, and preemptive development at the local level.
👣 Grounded in East Anchorage
As a former diplomat and educator, I bring a global perspective and local commitment to public service. I've represented Anchorage nationally on issues of economic resilience, disaster recovery, and municipal reform, while remaining deeply rooted in East Anchorage’s neighborhoods and day-to-day concerns.
This work is personal.
East Anchorage isn’t just where I serve, it’s home.
Celebrating the redevelopment of a downtown vacant and abandoned property into the new Alaska Black Caucus Equity Center.
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Munification of Anchorage.
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Celebrating scattered-site alternatives to mass homeless shelters.
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