Encinitas City Council, District 3

Holds an MBA from UC San Diego and has worked professionally in food systems and community organizing. She chairs the North County Food Policy Council, a body bringing together public, private, and nonprofit groups to improve regional food systems, and has represented North San Diego County on the state's Food Policy Council. She told The Coast News she'd prioritize mobility for residents of all ages and all types of road users, plus climate resilience, working collaboratively with the state and other agencies rather than against them. She's critical of the current council's approach to growth: "they got elected by talking about development and stopping development, but that is an issue that's guided by state law and they have approved everything that's crossed their desks... I think we need a fresh approach on our city council... within the framework of state laws."

Moved to Encinitas in 1977 and holds a master's degree in public administration from San Diego State. His career spans the Carlsbad Fire Department and the North County Fire Authority, plus service as president of the Olivenhain Municipal Water District board and, from 2015 to 2019, as a special-districts commissioner on the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO), the state agency overseeing municipal annexations and government reorganizations. He named public safety, local control, and the environment as his three priorities, criticizing state policies that he says have overridden local growth plans -- "blown that all up," in his words -- and said he wants to "push back on the state mandates." He's framed his run around wanting his grandchildren to have "the same special life" he found in Encinitas.