About

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Over the past 20 years, I have defended Mount Shasta’s retired railroad and timber towns against unethical business practices, while advancing environmental quality and sustainable economic development. I am well positioned to address unmet needs in our disadvantaged communities, improve conditions for working families, and leverage untapped opportunities to build regional self-sufficiency.

Priorities
  • Ensure affordable access to basic needs – water, food, energy & housing.
  • Enhance existing strengths, such as tourism and small business diversity.
  • Strengthen provision of public services, such as recycling, compost, public transit, libraries, recreation, education, behavioral health, and snow plowing.
  • Promote infrastructural solutions that encourage health and sustainability, such as trails, local food production, active transit, preventative healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
  • Respect indigenous people, and honor the cultural heritage of the region.
  • Advance restorative forestry, hazardous fuels reduction, and water conservation, to protect communities against extreme drought and wildfire.
  • Streamline permitting processes to accelerate implementation of beneficial, low-impact projects, such as building renovations, workforce housing, hazard remediation, and redevelopment of vacant properties.
  • Lobby to increase more meaningful local investments by federal and state public landowners.
  • Clarify definition of common terms, improve access to relevant data, and facilitate informed participation in local government to build regional consensus, and avoid litigation.

Accomplishments

  • Defended Mount Shasta communities against water depletion and privatization (Nestle, Weed 9). 
  • Assisted in attracting $15 million+ in grant funding for water infrastructure repairs and upgrades in McCloud, Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta through California’s Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) program.
  • Advocated for water use accountability as proponent of Measure H in 2017.
  • Designed and taught sustainable community curriculum at College of the Siskiyous for the Environmental Resources program 2009 – 2014.
  • Currently tracking Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) compliance in the Shasta, Scott and Butte Valley basins, and advocating for instream flow requirements in the Shasta and Scott Rivers, to increase the chances that Klamath dam removal will result in salmon recovery.

Qualifications

  • Currently serve as the community member-at-large alternate on the Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCo).
  • Experience with non-profit management, comprehensive planning, and watershed project administration.
  • Volunteered extensively for preventative healthcare and sustainability
  • Attended many County, City, Service District, and State meetings, to learn how democracy works, and comment in public forums.  
  • Currently serve on the boards of multiple community organizations, including McCloud Watershed Council, Great Exchange Thrift Shop, McCloud Chamber of Commerce, and Open Sky Gallery in Montague.
  • Mother of a 16 year old son, Rio, who is an aspiring rancher.