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Families across the Illinois Fourteenth Congressional district
deserve a representative who shares important values of family,
community, duty, and citizenship. A representative who is willing to
respect all opinions, especially those counter to her own, and seek
common ground to develop our shared path forward. Our current
Representative has ignored outreach from constituents across the
district, abandoned his promises to preserve access to care and has
instead voted in lockstep with the Trump agenda at each turn. It’s time
for new leadership in IL-14, it’s time for our community to be led by
independent voices and engaged citizens.
I grew up in the 14th District – this is my home. This is the
community where I first learned the importance of service and earned my
first Girl Scout badge. Its where I played in my first t-ball and
basketball leagues, earned my first paycheck, and graduated from a
world-class public high school. As a teenager, I was appointed to serve
on a local housing commission, where I had my first introduction to
public policy, and worked to preserve residents’ equal access to housing
without discrimination based on age, gender, and many other protected
classes. This community gave me the tools and confidence to step out
into the world and make a difference, and I’m proud to be back home.
I began my career as a registered nurse and worked in clinical
research at the National Institutes of Health, our country’s leading
institution of scientific discovery, to improve health and save lives.
I continued in public service, later working to implement health care
reform and improve healthcare quality for millions of Americans in the
private insurance market and the Medicare program. Expanding access to
health care, including preventive services, has long been a critical
priority for me and I’m ready for this fight to protect our health care.
More recently, I worked to help communities across the country prevent,
prepare for, and respond to disasters, bioterror threats, and public
health emergencies. I’ve seen firsthand how resilient our communities
are, but I also recognize that they need strong, reliable federal, state
and local partners to be able to reach their full potential.
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