This platform maps onto the issues that our community has identified as their priority concerns, primarily through looking at the Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) that the Village Trustees adopted in August 2022, and intended to guide their work through 2027. The process to develop the IPLAN included agencies, organizations and individuals across Oak Park, and selected key cross-cutting issues affecting our community’s well-being: mental health and access to care, climate justice, and gun violence prevention. 

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I’m also choosing to focus on housing as a high percentage of Oak Park residents remain housing cost-burdened.  In other words, for far too many Oak Parkers, it’s too expensive to live in this community that we love. In order to live up to our legacy as a community with progressive housing policies, we need Trustees committed to good stewardship of these plans who will see that they are implemented effectively and equitably. 

 

Finally, we find ourselves in a moment in history where our democratic institutions are in peril, and the most vulnerable among us are rightfully fearful of what’s to come. I am committed to defending people power, and leading by putting our community first. Because when love of community is at the core of governance, every one of us can thrive.