HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS,
HEALTHY PEOPLE

From my home in South Seattle, my family has seen the Port’s impact first-hand, along with the consequences of climate change: air pollution, noise pollution, and the endangerment of our waterways. The Port is still the largest polluter in our region - I wonder if my own daughter will have the same experiences I had, getting to enjoy the full beauty of the Puget Sound landscape. Now more than ever, we must take the bold steps to achieve our environmental sustainability goals of eliminating the use of fossil fuels and achieving a sustainable blue economy. This can be achieved while creating jobs and remaining globally competitive in the marketplace.

That means:

• Subsidizing the cost to transition towards electric motors for trucks and boats, so zero fossil fuels going through the port;  

• Working collaboratively with local and state government to achieve our regional goals in advancing larger-scale green projects that create jobs.

• Saying “no” to selling public lands to developers, and instead build affordable housing for workers near where jobs are at;

RESILIENT + ROBUST
ECONOMY

I serve on the Governor’s subcabinet on business diversity, and have seen first-hand how businesses struggle, especially in the wake of Covid-19. I bring the 10,000 foot view that understands how industries sustain businesses, how businesses make jobs for workers, and how workers support families in our communities. I’ve got the experience and perspective that will best serve the region as we work to rebuild our economy.

The Port is the economic driver of our county - it can and must play a key role shaping the directing of our recovery, and in rebuilding our economy better than it was before.

That means:

• Asking in all matters, “How will this impact jobs?”

• Ensuring workers are taken care of: that they make a living wage, have access to benefits including medical leave and child care, and have access to PPE on site. Every single worker deserves a safe and healthy work environment;

• Small business owners are invested in, have access to relief opportunities and technical support, understand how to work with our resources and systems, and people of color, women and other marginalized communities are given a voice in processes that impact them;

• Industries that are on the brink are brought to the table to work collaboratively with local and state leadership, so we are all moving forward together, to build a brighter future.

SAFER
CONNECTIONS

At its core, the Port is a connector. The Port keeps goods and commerce flowing in and out of our state - keeping our economy alive; the Port is where we go when we need to travel to visit loved ones; the Port is who we trust to ensure our waterways are safe and healthy. After a year in various forms of pandemic lockdown, our connections - to loved ones, to our neighborhoods, and to the world - is taking on new meaning.

We all want to be better connected. We deserve to emerge from this crisis with the assurance that our connections are safe and dependable.

Managing infection: Workers and travers should feel comfortable resuming business, with confidence that they won’t get themselves or others sick. 

Internet Service: In today’s day and age, you need to be plugged in.

Human Trafficking: We must address the growing underbelly of human trafficking: labor trafficking. As a legislative aide at the King County Council, I worked on legislation to clean up the international supply chains, and there is more to do to ensure all our products and services are ethically sourced.

Civil rights: Protecting the Port against invasive technology and policy proposals, so traveling through the airport doesn’t infringe upon people’s fundamental civil rights.

Public Safety: Law enforcement training, policies and practices should be on par with state standards.

That means:

• Healthy conditions for travelers and workers at the airport, cruise terminals, and all across the Port to ensure they don’t face an outsized risk of infection;

• Clean and safe supply chains - ensuring the goods that come into our Port are safe; ensuring clean supply chains by investing in and enforcing anti-trafficking measures

• Implicit bias + de-escalation training for all Port employees working on issues of security + enforcement