My home is here in the Bay Area and I understand the challenges we face – from the quality of schools to the skyrocketing costs of living to the homelessness crisis on our streets. I know these problems because I was born and raised in this community. I am running for re-election so we can fight for our home. I am committed to bringing affordable housing, investments in education, expanded transit, universal health care and climate adaptations to the Bay Area, and protecting our most vulnerable residents. I hope to continue being able to serve you.

Fixing the Housing & Homelessness Crisis

We must address the skyrocketing cost of housing and the growing homelessness crisis on our streets. As your Assemblymember, I’m working to:

• Create social housing that will put us in the driver’s seat of community development so we can build beautiful, sustainable, and mixed-income neighborhoods without relying on the for-profit developers (Assembly Bill 11 of 2025)
• Promote smart growth policies that will create more mixed-use housing in dense areas that are available to mixed-income levels
• Invest in supportive services for increased access to programs and housing for all Californians experiencing homelessness
• Lower barriers for seniors who want to sell their homes to create more housing opportunities (Assembly Bill 2394 of 2026)

Protecting and Supporting all Californians

As the federal government cuts programs and funding and targets our most vulnerable immigrant populations, I’m fighting in the Legislature by:

• Making fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable by expanding the CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Program
• Affirming the Legislature’s commitment to birthright citizenship (AJR 5 of 2025)
• Extending services for our foster youth
• Supporting childhood cancer research (AB 703 of 2025)

Investing in our Schools & Colleges

The greatest tool of socioeconomic mobility should be education. However, California remains subpar in the nation for TK-12 per-pupil spending and still has enormous barriers to accessing higher education. Despite record highs of education investment from the state while I served on the Assembly Budget Committee, we still do not have enough to create the world-class schools we deserve. If Silicon Valley is going to continue to be the global hub of innovation, our state needs to have a world-class educational system to produce the next generation of leaders and thinkers. ​As your Assemblymember, I’m working to:

• Create tuition-free college for Californians ​
• Increase investment in K-12 public schools
• Reinvest in and expand career technical education programs
• Create equal pathways of opportunity after graduation ​

Guaranteeing Healthcare for All

For the wealthiest state in the wealthiest nation in the world, our spending on health care outcomes is abysmal. Many Californians still lack health insurance and, even when they do have health insurance, they cannot afford the egregious copays, predatory fees and costly drugs. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that employment-based health care does not work. Only by guaranteeing health care for all can we ensure the physical and mental health of our people as well as our economy. In the State Assembly, I am fighting for: 

• Universal health care for everyone (AB 1900 of 2025)
• Crackdowns on predatory health fees and charges
• Lowering drugs costs
• Defending Medi-Cal for all families in CA
• Protecting reproductive freedom

Ending Corporate Influence in Politics

Our government works best when more people are at the table, making decisions. We need to take out the undue influence of special interests and dark money in policy-making. Only by empowering everyday Californians and matching the power of special interests can we make a democracy that works for everyone. As your Assemblymember, I’m working to:

• Ban corporate contributions to political campaigns (AB 20 of 2020)
• Stop foreign influence in our elections (AB 1819 of 2022)
• Establish publicly financed campaigns (SB 42 of 2025)
• Defend democracy from election deniers and authoritarianism 

Combating Climate Change

Climate change is an existential threat to all of us. We’ve seen it in California’s droughts and destructive fires. We are on the precipice of a climate disaster. Even though California has remained a leader in mitigating climate change, we must do more to reduce carbon emissions and pollution:

• Reducing single-use plastics
• Ending fracking and our reliance on fossil fuels
• Sustainable community development that brings homes closer to jobs
• Public ownership of our energy grid
• Expanding recycling efforts (including EV batteries) and biomass efficiency
• Growing our sustainability and green jobs through the California Green New Deal

Improving Traffic and Safety

We have to make it easier for people to get to work or school without sitting in hours of traffic or driving a single-occupancy private vehicle. We need convenient, reliable public transportation options with less crowding and rush hour headaches:

• Passed daylighting bill into law to improve visibility at crosswalks (AB 413 of 2023)
• Convenient cross-bay transportation options
• Expanded bike infrastructure and last-mile connections
• Expanded bus and rail coverage
• Affordability of electric and alternative fuel vehicles