I've worked my entire adult life in public service, having spent time as a diadromous fisheries biologist for the MA Division of Marine Fisheries and as a preschool/elementary school teacher. I focused my postgrad work in Environmental Policy, earning a master's degree in it at Northeastern University. I love this state–I've spent my entire adult life here in Massachusetts from the time I was 17, and I'm proud to say that as a  transgender woman, I wouldn't be alive if not for the access to gender affirming care that living here offered me. I'm running for Governor's Council to make Massachusetts’ judicial system a better and more equitable place for all. I have personal experience with the judicial system here in Massachusetts–having been arrested as a student protestor in 2024 for asserting my 1st Amendment rights to free speech. I am painfully aware of the nepotism and political game-playing that governs our state politics, which is so often dominated by elderly and out-of-touch career politicians. I’m running to do something about it.