I’m a working parent, a small business owner, and award-winning filmmaker. I grew up in Sutton and Grafton, built a successful career out in the world, and brought that experience home to raise my kids and serve the community that shaped me. I’m running now because I want my kids—and yours—to have a future here, and our communities deserve more than unmet needs and excuses from career politicians who’ve had a decade to deliver and haven’t.

Let’s talk accountability.

Did you know our current representative ranks 42nd out of 43 long-serving legislators in budget earmarks brought home?¹ And it’s not about being in the minority party. Over the same decade, Republican Rep. Paul Frost next door in Auburn brought home nearly twice as much, and Republican Rep. David Muradian in Grafton more than two and a half times as much. Meanwhile, our roads deteriorate, water safety remains a concern, and local needs go unmet. He may tell you to blame Beacon Hill, but he’s been part of Beacon Hill for more than a decade. Bringing resources home is the job.

Our district is invisible.

For 25 years, I’ve worked as an award-winning director and producer, including over a decade as a supervising producer on the long-running hit television series House Hunters International. Producing is a job that’s entirely about making things happen, listening to people, and finding the truth in complicated stories. From war zones to kitchen tables, I’ve asked hard questions, found common ground, and amplified the voices of others. Government needs those same skills.

The 18th District isn’t a monolith. It’s a community that deserves a representative focused not on how we’re divided, but on what we share: a desire for affordability, safety, economic opportunity, and a future we’re prepared for.

We need to rebuild trust, in government and in each other. When the barn gets too small, we raise a new one together. We don’t burn down our neighbors’. Building is harder than tearing down.

I’ll work for everyone here, whether they vote for me or not. If you believe it’s time to stop blaming others for our problems and start building, I humbly ask for your vote.

¹ Analysis of Massachusetts state budget records, FY2017–FY2027: House budget amendments matched to enacted earmarks in the signed General Appropriations Acts (malegislature.gov). “Long-serving” means legislators who filed budget amendments in all 10 budget years; FY2021 is excluded.