My driving force is ensuring all Minnesotans thrive with well-paying jobs, great healthcare, economic security, and investment in their communities.
You can see all of the bills I’ve sponsored for you on the Minnesota legislature website.
Advocating for an affordable Minnesota
We all deserve to afford our lives, including access to education and training, equal hiring opportunities, and pay that reflects our contributions. We’ve seen healthcare, housing, transportation, food, and child care costs escalate, with historically disadvantaged communities impacted the most. I’m incredibly proud that my efforts have earned endorsements from many groups concerned about Minnesotans’ quality of life, from organized labor to a wide array of community advocate groups.
Ensuring health care works for all Minnesotans
Too many Minnesotans trying to protect their families’ health have been negatively affected by the financial hardships of for-profit care. I passed legislation to put the patient-provider relationship first and ban for-profit health insurers from our Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs. I’ve helped ease the blight of medical debt and reduced barriers to care for people with rare diseases, for which I received the 2023 Rare Voice award. Fighting for mental health funding earned me the 2024 Minnesota Psychological Association Legislator of the Year Award. Now I’m working to bring transparency and accountability to private equity investment in our healthcare system.
Sensible firearm harm prevention
Gun violence is a public health crisis. We should feel safe whether at school, work, worshipping, shopping, or out in the community. We’ve seen high rates of suicide, murders, and accidental deaths involving firearms. Assault rifles cause more than 85% of fatalities in horrific mass shootings; our children deserve better. I’m committed to advancing common-sense, evidence-based gun violence prevention legislation that Minnesotans strongly support: banning semiautomatic military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and dangerous modifications like binary triggers.
Protecting human rights
All Minnesotans deserve to live happy, fulfilling lives, no matter their zip code, faith, skin color, health status, or whom they love. As your Representative, I actively advocate for underrepresented communities and have shown my commitment by:
- Passing a bill to increase the availability of accessible housing.
- Authoring legislation to ensure workers with disabilities can thrive in Minnesota.
- Protecting Minnesotans’ right to make the best choices for their bodies as a member of the Queer Caucus and the Reproductive Freedom Caucus.
- Introducing and sponsoring HF3344, establishing the first LGBTQIA2S+ and HIV Long-Term Care Bill of Rights in the nation.
Championing climate and environment
I will continue to champion clean energy incentives that lead to sustainable, green, good-paying careers for Minnesotans, while reducing the impacts of climate change across our communities. As your state representative, I obtained $5 million for grants to fund solar on public buildings, especially benefiting smaller communities. I’ve also worked hard to advance sustainable building guidelines to make sure that projects we support with state funds meet high standards of energy efficiency and climate resilience. I’m proud of the work the Legislature has done to advance and protect environmental protections and am committed to doing this work for the sake of future generations.
Supporting education for all
We are dependent on an educated community. The public education system is the center of our democracy and our way of life. The Minnesota DFL:
- Helped fill funding gaps threatening our public schools by providing inflationary increases to protect our children’s future.
- Kept free breakfast and lunch in the 2025 budget against Republicans’ wishes.
- Ensured that educators reflect our communities so that all children see themselves represented.
- Invested in teachers by strengthening the teacher pension system.
In 2026 I’m leading the way on a more stable, more affordable health insurance program for school districts across the state, and ensuring students are protected from sexual abuse by predatory adults in their schools.
Looking to the future
Investing in our infrastructure, higher education, and natural and cultural resources is crucial to the prosperity of our state. The Center for Genome Engineering (CGE) — which deploys genetically modified cells while training the next generation of genetic engineers — is the kind of forward-thinking that makes me prioritize investments in our state’s infrastructure. Since joining the House, I’ve served on the Capital Investment Committee to make decisions on the best investments for Minnesota’s infrastructure.
I will continue to champion environmental quality and clean energy incentives that lead to sustainable, green, good-paying careers for Minnesotans. I’ve also focused on understanding innovations that can make use of science and technology to give us a healthier and more sustainable state.