Our regional leaders are united in the fight to protect our communities from natural disaster. Jackie is laser focused on the threats posed by wildfires, drought, and sea level rise, and she will work closely with our regional leaders to advance legislation that protects home and business fire insurance. Jackie knows that the North Bay is perpetually at risk from these challenges, and she is ready to lead.

Jackie will act with urgency to address the climate crisis. Time is ticking, and we need to act with robust investments in clean energy, public transportation, safe and accessible biking, pedestrian, and multi-modal infrastructure, and electric vehicles. Jackie is also committed to human rights, labor rights, and environmental justice up and down the supply chain, ensuring that our transition to a clean energy economy uplifts the human condition here in California and across the globe. In the State Assembly, protecting open space, habitats, and family farms will be a top priority for Jackie, and she’ll ask the tough questions before any new development encroaches on lands we’ve set aside for future generations.

The Trump Administration is doing everything it can to undermine California’s leadership on climate change, to attack our immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities, to threaten our public schools and universities, to take away our healthcare, and to erode our constitutional and civil rights. Jackie is proud to be an immigrant who loves this country and loves the North Bay, and she will do everything she can to protect our neighbors, our progressive values, and our way of life.

Jackie is an educator who believes in the transformative power of public education. She will fight for every dollar possible from our state to invest in public education and give every child in the North Bay the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Jackie will also fight to constrain costs at our UCs and CSUs and keep community college free for every California resident. She will be especially focused on ensuring that Sonoma State University is able to rise above its leadership challenges to serve its responsibilities to our students.

Jackie understands that we are in the middle of an affordable housing crisis, and we need an all of the above strategy to keep people housed while meeting the needs of a growing population. This includes stronger tenant protections, mixed-use development, and incentives for developers to expand the number of affordable housing units built. Jackie is especially focused on making sure that teachers, first responders, and other essential workers have access to affordable workforce housing in the communities that they serve. Housing is a human right.

Jackie doesn’t just talk about homelessness; she provides solutions. Under her leadership as Mayor of Rohnert Park, the city saw a drastic reduction in homelessness through a housing first approach that demanded accountability and results. Jackie will look for every opportunity to make the state a stronger partner in helping the unhoused find stable permanent housing with wraparound services to help them rebuild their lives.

Jackie supports health care for all, and that includes affordable, accessible, and destigmatized mental health care. Jackie supports health care for all, but she will also embrace every solution that covers more people, lowers prescription drug and premium costs, and improves access to procedures needed to save and improve lives.

Jackie is proudly pro-labor. She organized workers at her place of employment, at risk to her own career, because she understands that EVERY worker deserves the right to organize and collectively bargain for fair wages and benefits. Jackie’’s husband John is also a respected labor organizer, a trustee representing his union. In Sacramento, Jackie will fight for a living wage and robust workplace safety for every Californian, from the fields to the factory.

Jackie will ensure that local communities have the resources they need to prioritize public safety from every direction. This includes enriching opportunities for youth before, during, and after school, greater mental health investments, crisis responder support, and greater connections between law enforcement and the communities they serve (community policing). Jackie supports common sense gun safety laws and will champion efforts to reduce gun violence in our region.

Marin and Sonoma counties are home to a diverse array of small businesses, family farms, and cutting edge technology hubs. Jackie will work closely with them to ensure that North Bay concerns are heard as important decisions are made in Sacramento, ensuring that our region retains its unique character and creates new and better career pathways for all of us.