Elected Experience

Precinct Committee Officer; Student Bar Association President, UW Law School.

Other Professional Experience

Foreign Service Officer (diplomat), U.S. Department of State, 24 years; Spokane County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney; Legal Advisor, Nissan Motor Company Ltd. 

Education

U.S. Naval War College, M.A. (top 5% of class), National Security; University of Washington, J.D., B.A. International Trade & Investment; Central Valley High School, Spokane Valley.

Community Service

CIA Agency Seal Award Recipient; Spokane County Democrats Chair; Gonzaga Law School Mock Trial Judge; Eastern Washington University Cyber Security Hackathon Judge; Spokane League of Women Voters; Civics Bowl; American Red Cross; Manzanita House; Friends of the Bluff Fire Risk Reduction Team Leader.

Statement

Our billion-dollar-a-day war with no clear mission or exit strategy has crippled our economy. Rent and mortgages are unaffordable. Grocery prices keep rising while paychecks stay flat. Gas, diesel, and fertilizer prices skyrocket. Wheat that used to ship to Asia sits in silos. Tariffs close markets that farmers spent decades expanding. Hospitals hanging by a thread in Dayton, Ritzville, Colville, and Pullman. This isn’t working. We can help fix it by unseating our freshman Congressmember.

As a blue-collar kid from Spokane, I put myself through college and law school and came back to Spokane County as Deputy Prosecutor to stand up for survivors of violence and sexual assault. I served our country for 24 years as a diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service in places like Afghanistan, Japan, Norway, and Pakistan. I negotiated tough trade and national security issues across political, religious, and national divides.  As your Congresswoman, I'll end the tariffs punishing our farmers and consumers. I’ll fund rural hospitals, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I’ll bring a prosecutor’s skills to keep us safer, and uproot corruption. I’ll keep politicians out of your doctor’s office.

The current Congressmember could have stood up for us. He said he would. He didn’t. He fell in line and surrendered his responsibility and power to help us. He seems more interested in cozying up to elites than keeping them in check.  No one is above the law. Not the powerful or well-connected. Nobody shielding sex traffickers from accountability. I’m running because our communities and our Country deserve better.

I’m ready to be your next member in Congress and would be honored to have your vote. Recommended by the Spokane County Labor Council, and hundreds of neighbors across Eastern Washington. Endorsed by the Ferry County Democrats, Laborers, Machinists #751, Electrical Workers #73, Steamfitters #44.