Our Platform

Across Massachusetts, working people are being priced out of basic necessities like housing, heating gas, and healthcare. I am running to fight for policies that make our state more affordable for families, seniors, and young people alike.

I support:

• Medicare for All, including H.1405 (An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts). Healthcare costs continue to rise, but they do not have to. A single-payer universal healthcare system without networks, co-pays, or deductibles is possible and it would save businesses, municipalities, and tax payers in our Commonwealth billions of dollars every year. 

• A graduated income tax system, including enduring support for the Fair Share Amendment. We live in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest nation on Earth, and yet Massachusetts ranks first in wealth inequality nationwide. Residents who make $50,000 a year should not be taxed at the same rate as those who make $500,000. Let's raise taxes on the rich to lighten the load for the working class. 

• An expanded Massachusetts Child and Family Tax Credit, raising it from $440 to $1,750 per child, making it refundable, and increasing the eligible age limit from 13 to 17. This is modeled off of legislation that has already been successfully implemented in Minnesota. 

• A ban on spread pricing by pharmacy benefit managers to reduce prescription drug costs.

• Rent stabilization and stronger tenant protections, including support for H.2328 (An Act Enabling Cities and Towns to Stabilize Rents and Protect Tenants), so that residents are not priced out of their communities by sudden and extreme rent increases.

• Support for State House worker unionization, including support for H.2093 (An Act Relative to Collective Bargaining Rights for Legislative Employees), because the people who keep our government running deserve the right to organize for fair pay and working conditions.

• Higher taxes on corporations that shelter profits offshore instead of investing in Massachusetts communities.

• Limits on MassHealth estate recovery claims on estates valued at $1 million or less.

• Fair-share payments from large tax-exempt institutions, including support for H.3264 (An Act Relative to Payments in Lieu of Taxation By Organizations Exempt From the Property Tax) to ensure that some of the largest institutions in this state support struggling municipalities and pay their fair share.

• The development of municipally owned utilities to bring down energy costs. For-profit monopolies should not be allowed to keep ratepayers at the mercy of ever-rising bills. Municipally owned utilities have worked in communities like Holyoke and Chicopee. We should learn from their example and expand that model region-wide.

Beacon Hill remains one of the least transparent and least efficient state legislatures in the country. In 2023, Massachusetts lawmakers introduced over 10,500 bills but passed only 21, giving the state the lowest enactment rate of any state legislature nationwide. Despite adopting new joint transparency and efficiency rules in 2025, including requirements for public committee votes, bill summaries, and advance hearing notices, committees have failed to follow those rules in a majority of cases. Real accountability is still lacking. I am running for State Representative because Massachusetts residents deserve a Legislature that is transparent, effective, and accountable.

I support:

• Banning legislators from stock trading while they are in office. Our elected officials should not be allowed to profit from the insider information they have access to as part of their jobs.

• Banning legislators from becoming lobbyists for at least five years after they serve. Companies should not be allowed to influence political decision-makers with the promise of a job after they leave office. 

• Ending the extraordinary public records exemptions that currently shield the Governor, Legislature, and Judiciary from public scrutiny. 

• Enacting the voter-approved audit of the state legislature that 72% of the electorate voted for in 2024.

• Term limits for state legislators. Too often, elected officials seek to turn their positions into lifetime appointments. This is unhealthy for democracy and contributes to our legislature's record-low productivity. In Massachusetts, no legislator should serve for more than 10 years, and the Speaker of the House should serve in that role for no more than 8.   
  

• Eliminating consolidated budget amendments that obscure important votes from public view.
  

• Requiring the House to debate the full budget in open session, accessible to both the media and public.

• Establishing an independent, non-partisan agency modeled on the Congressional Budget Office to analyze Massachusetts’ state budget and economy. This would lessen the power of lobbyists and party bosses on Beacon Hill. 

I believe public service should be rooted in transparency, accessibility, and independence from special interests. Throughout this campaign and afterward, I will hold myself to the same standards I expect from Beacon Hill.

That means:

• Rejecting campaign contributions from corporate PACs and lobbyists. Both during this campaign and afterward I reject all campaign contributions from corporate PACs and lobbyists. Your representative should work for your benefit, not that of large donors and corporations.
  

• Making my Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance reports easily available by linking to them here. Using this resource you can see who funds your local politicians and how they spend their campaign money.
  

• Holding in-person town halls twice a year as State Rep., so residents can receive updates on legislation and ask questions directly.
  

• Maintaining regular district office hours as State Rep., where constituents can meet with me and my staff and get help with casework.
  

• Staying accessible and responsive to constituents. My phone number is 413-275-5144. Call or text whenever you need. 

During the Trump administration, the executive branch of the federal government has repeatedly acted in ways that threaten the Constitution, the economy, and ultimately American democracy. Massachusetts has both the opportunity and the obligation to chart a different course. I am running for State Representative to ensure our Commonwealth uses its power to protect the rights of all residents, upholds the rule of lawy, and stands firm against federal overreach. 

I support:

• The Safe Communities Act (H.2580) and the Protect Act (H.5158), which would ban 287(g) agreements in Massachusetts and prevent federal authorities from deputizing local law enforcement to carry out ICE raids. The Protect Act also prohibits civil immigration arrests in and around courthouses, or during travel to and from court, without a signed warrant or judicial order.

• The Law Enforcement Identification and Public Trust Act (H.4684), which would prohibit federal and local law enforcement officials from wearing masks to conceal their identities, with narrow exceptions for SWAT teams, medical necessity, and hazardous material exposure.

• Legislation limiting what data state and municipal agencies can share with federal authorities without a judicial warrant, including explicit protections for information collected through the DMV, public schools, and the healthcare system, so it cannot be used for immigration enforcement or the targeting of political opponents. 

The cost of energy continues to rise across the 12th Hampden District. Each winter, too many people are forced to choose between heat and rent as they struggle to pay high gas and electric bills. I believe we need an energy system that is affordable, sustainable, and accountable to the public.

I support:
 

• The development of municipally owned utilities to bring down energy costs. For-profit monopolies should not be allowed to keep ratepayers at the mercy of ever-rising bills. Municipally owned utilities have worked in communities like Holyoke and Chicopee. We should learn from their example and expand that model region-wide.
  

• State investment in renewable energy sources suited to Massachusetts, including low-head hydroelectric and tidal power along our coast. This strengthens our energy independence and creates clean jobs.
  

• Expansion of the state park system to preserve natural lands in Western Massachusetts, protect native wildlife, and increase carbon sequestration.
  

• High-speed east–west passenger rail, because it will cut carbon emission, reduce highway traffic, improve the regional economy, and substantially improve the quality of life of many residents.

• Repealing the sales and use tax exemption for data centers, so Massachusetts ratepayers are not forced to subsidize electrical grid upgrades for the AI industry. 

 LGBTQ+ people have had to fight for their human rights for far too long. Even in Massachusetts, the House has recently advanced legislation aimed at restricting transgender students’ participation in youth sports. Rep. Angelo Puppolo has a long history of voting and campaigning against LGBTQ+ rights, including votes against marriage equality (Roll Call #462, S.800 — July 29, 2008). In June 2016, he also voted for an amendment that would have created a criminal penalty of up to five years in prison for entering a restroom or locker room inconsistent with one’s sex assigned at birth (Roll Call #270, S.735 — June 1, 2016). I am running for State Representative because equality and dignity are not negotiable.

I support:

• Protecting transgender people, including their ability to participate in youth sports and access spaces consistent with their gender identity.
  

• Ensuring insurance coverage and nondiscrimination protections are enforced and expanded, so health insurers in Massachusetts cannot deny care or impose barriers based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

• Supporting LGBTQ+ parent engagement in schools, including backing H.4443 to establish LGBTQ+ parent advisory councils in Massachusetts public schools.
  

• Banning the “LGBTQ+ panic defense,” a legal strategy that attempts to justify or excuse violence against LGBTQ+ victims based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. This defense remains permitted in many states, including Massachusetts. 

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, the right to choose has been under attack nationwide. Massachusetts remains a state where people can still access reproductive healthcare, but we cannot take those freedoms for granted. Far-right extremists and anti-choice  advocates remain active, and they continue to have allies in state government. I believe everyone deserves the freedom to make their own healthcare decisions with dignity, privacy, and safety.

I support: 

• Reproductive freedom in Massachusetts, so patients can access abortion and other essential reproductive healthcare services without fear of harassment or political interference.

• Expanding access to free menstrual products, including support for H.2483 (An Act to Increase Access to Disposable Menstrual Products) and H.684 (An Act Concerning Disposable Menstrual Products in Schools) so that basic healthcare needs are never a financial burden for students or families.

• Lowering the cost of child care, by enlarging the Child and Family Tax Credit and increasing state support for K-12 education so that educational outcomes are not so tied to property tax values.

• Maternal healthcare equity, by fighting for more state support for minority OBGYNs and midwifes to help end the inequities experienced by minority women and their children when they're pregnant or in delivery.

Big Tech should not be allowed to profit from exploiting our personal data. As someone with professional experience working in artificial intelligence, I understand how quickly these technologies are reshaping daily life, often without meaningful government oversight or consumer protection. I am running for State Representative to ensure Massachusetts leads the nation with strong safeguards, accountability, and transparency in the digital age. 

I support:

• The Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608, to ensure consumers, not corporations, control how their personal data is collected, used, and shared.

• Requiring mental health chatbot providers to clearly disclose when a user is interacting with an AI system, not a licensed human professional.

• Prohibiting companies from selling or sharing sensitive health information collected through therapy or mental health chatbots, including personally identifiable data.

• Banning surveillance pricing statewide, so corporations cannot use personal data to charge different people different prices for the same goods and services.

• Requiring disclosure when AI is used to collect personal health information or provide medical guidance, so patients know when automated systems are involved.

• Ensuring clinical practices that deploy AI provide clear access to qualified human care, including instructions for reaching a medical professional when needed.

• Strengthening criminal enforcement against AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), ensuring Massachusetts law keeps pace with new forms of digital exploitation.