Who I am
I'm not a native, but I got here as fast as I could: I moved to Gunnison at 18 for Western Colorado University and never left the state. I'm a software developer and data analyst with a background in physical science, and my work turns complicated public data into something anyone can use, with tools that make campaign finance, voting records, and legislation readable without needing to be a specialist. That's the same instinct behind this campaign. Government should be transparent to the people who pay for it.
I came to Colorado from the Chicago suburbs, and what I found was a state with a habit most of the country has lost: trusting regular people to decide things for themselves. Colorado's voters, not its politicians, made this the first state to approve women's suffrage at the ballot box, in 1893, twenty-seven years before the federal amendment. In 1992, Colorado's voters did something no other state has ever done: they amended their own constitution to require that politicians ask permission before raising taxes. TABOR — the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights — isn't really about taxes. It's about who decides. Coloradans reserved that call for themselves. Colorado's voters ended marijuana prohibition in 2012, and Washington still hasn't caught up. Nobody handed those decisions down. People here voted for them, and history keeps ruling in their favor. That tradition is still alive in Jeffco. I've watched neighbors show up to hearings, read the ordinances themselves, and vote on the future of their own blocks. I'm running to give that tradition a seat in the legislature.
Beyond the day job, I serve as Chair of the Jefferson County affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Colorado and as the state party's Legislative Director, roles that have given me a close look at how state-level legislation actually gets made, who shows up to influence it, and where the gaps are between what the legislature passes and what residents experience.
