I'm a lifelong Minnesotan and dad to three brilliant children. My family moved to Brooklyn Center in 2023, and since then, we've made it home. My kids and I love bike rides around Palmer Lake, exploring Brooklyn Center's parks, and walking our large Akita (Kevin Bacon) around the neighborhood. I'm also an avid gardener who spends weekends adding biodiversity to my yard—one plant at a time.

In December 2025, I responded to a text from a friend about ICE activities affecting Culver's employees just down the street from my house. I knew something needed to change in our community. Over the next six months, I worked alongside legal observers, documenting encounters and partnering with local aid groups and churches to provide food and housing support to families affected by Operation Metro Surge. Through this work, I found deep community roots in Brooklyn Center—the kind I hadn't connected with in my first two years living here.

Growing up as the oldest of six homeschooled children, I earned admission to college through Post-Secondary Enrollment and completed high school with a two-year Associate's Degree from Central Lakes College. Life took unexpected turns—an early marriage and my firstborn child put formal education on hold—but financial responsibility never left. I grew up on food stamps and Medicaid, watching each month's bills become a household conversation starting when I was a young teenager. At 12, I began making my own money chopping firewood and mowing neighbors' lawns. At 18, I started working at Best Buy selling movies and games. Nineteen years later, I'm a Senior Specialist in Enterprise Portfolio Management, building digital tools that support retail operations at the company's core. Now, I want to bring that same practical problem-solving to City Hall.

Brooklyn Center deserves leadership rooted in its neighborhoods—not shaped behind closed doors by private investors and developers. That's why I'm running.