I was born in Colorado and grew up on a small hobby farm on a mesa, in the high desert of New Mexico. I attended Baptist academies in primary and secondary school, and then graduated from Piedra Vista High School in Farmington, NM in 2004.

I grew up near the Diné people of the Navajo nation, and I witnessed the ongoing injustices being done to them. During this time I also traveled on mission trips to South Africa, and Mexico where I helped deliver humanitarian aid. I watched the damaging impact of climate change in my own area.

After high school I studied at the University of NM Roswell. I completed the EMT-Basic certification, followed by the EMT-Intermediate certification at Texas A&M-ESTI.

I moved to MN in 2011, because of climate change, the economy, and the desire for my children to benefit from quality education, job opportunities, top tier healthcare, and affordable, safe housing. Those basic necessities are vital to sustain this beautiful State I have come to love as my own.

In 2015 I graduated from Ridgewater College with an Associate's degree and began taking additional classes at both SCSU and BSU.

I was certain I would complete my education, launch a career, pay off my debt, own my own home, and take them on vacations to see the world!

It would then be time to finally give back to all the people and non profit agencies who helped me get there. This was my American Dream.

However, in 2019, before I could finish school, I became very ill. That illness coincided with a severe bicycle accident. The injuries I sustained in the accident caused temporal lobe epilepsy. My health deteriorated, taking a few years to stabilize.

I am here because the Affordable Healthcare Act saved my life, helped me become a better parent, and continues to sustain me and my children to this day.

If I win, I will work within my sphere of influence to demand Universal Healthcare, protect the right to bodily autonomy, protect the environment and the BWCA watershed, and support other programs that help vulnerable populations. Above all, we must protect the Constitutional and Human Rights of all constituents of MN district 17a.