What is your professional experience?

Professor and Historian

What is your public office experience?

have never run for office before

If applicable, please list offices you have run for or held.

N/A

What are the specific skills that you bring to the position for which you are running?

Dedication to the poor, working class, and vulnerable.

What are your top 3 priorities if you are elected?

Decriminalize homelessness and addiction, reallocate funds from criminal justice system into community based alternatives.

How do your values motivate your run for office?

Integrity and a dedication to serving the underserved— values that are lacking ion our elected representatives.

Key Issues

Please share with us your position on a number of issues that are key for Muncie Resists and describe what actions you would take with regard to them. We recognize that some elected positions may not have a direct role in addressing some of these issues, but if you had an opportunity to have an impact, what would you want that to be?

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to support the rights of

a. LGBTQ+ individuals?

Secure civil rights for LGBTQIA+ individuals

b. people with disabilities?

Secure civil rights for those with disabilities— including addressing issues relating to accessibility.

c. people experiencing poverty?

Decriminalize homelessness and addiction and invest in services rather than policing and incarceration.

d. immigrants?

Make Randolph and Delaware counties sanctuary cities for migrants; abolish ICE.

e. people who are racial or ethnic minorities/minoritized individuals?

Reinstitute DEI initiatives and make sure that minorities are represented and supported by their elected officials.

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to support voter access? (This might include your position on vote centers, polling hours, voter IDs, signature matching, the SAVE act, etc.)

Repeal the SAVE act (should it pass), make Election Day a holiday…

In recent months, federal agencies have overstepped the power of local and state governments. In what contexts would you support resistance by local officials?

I would fully support and encourage local officials to resist ICE and the DHS.

In recent months, federal agencies have overstepped the constitutional rights of the people. How would you protect and defend our constitutional rights?

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to support healthcare access for all?

Universal healthcare is a human right.

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to address the affordability of

housing costs?

Raise the minimum wage in the state, outlaw contract buying, stop corporations from buying single family homes, and create pathways for low income families to secure low interest mortgages.

food costs?

As judge of Circuit Court No. 5 I will uphold all local, state and federal laws. Any answer other than this could be seen as "pre-judging" an issue that could possible come before me in my capacity as judge and therefore would be unethical.

healthcare costs?

Universal, free healthcare. No more private insurance.

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to support discussion about science, history, and gender as necessary parts of educating children in our schools?

I am a historian and a professor in women’s, gender, and African American studies. The sciences and humanities have been under attack for years, but we’re in a moment where Christian nationalists have succeeded in demonizing higher education as a whole. The greater goal is to create an uninformed working class. College should be a place where young people explore their interests and passions.

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to support public education?

Teachers need to be plaid a living wage. We need to demilitarize our schools and make them places or learning, not prisons.

What do you think should be Indiana’s priority in terms of the electrical grid and energy generation sources? What have you done and/or what do you commit to do regarding a clean energy economy?

Invest in renewable energy, and do not allow AI data centers to be built in the state.

What have you done and/or what do you commit to doing to make your specific area of government more transparent to your constituents?

I would surround myself with a team with expertise in specific areas; hold regular town hall meetings; make all financial records public; make it illegal for politicians to to take PAC money or to own or trade stocks while working as an elected official.

Do you have any questions? Is there anything else you would like to share?