About Me

I’ve been living in Pinole since 2011, helping with my mother’s daylily business for all of that time and working as a licensed home healthcare aide since 2016. For a while, I was disengaged from politics- but Bernie Sanders’ campaign in 2016 got me back into political action. I joined the Pinole Progressive Alliance in 2017, and have been working with them to try and get the library running at full hours. After going to all but one of the city council meetings since May, I saw that there was a marked disconnect between Pinole’s city government and the community, that there was significant division within the community, and that there were not really any community gathering spaces for working-age adults in Pinole. After talking with city staff, I realized the long-term threats to Pinole’s financial stability. Without better engagement and communication between city government and the community, Pinole will decline. But working together, we can renew Pinole.