About the candidate
The people most affected don't always have the strongest voice
Education shaped every stage of my life. My parents came to East Brunswick believing its public schools would create opportunities they never had, and they were right.
At the same time, navigating the school system wasn't always straightforward. Understanding placement requirements, graduation pathways, and eligibility rules became part of my education, because those decisions determined which opportunities were available to me. Plenty of families are still doing that work on their own, and most of them are doing it with less information than the district already has on hand.
The student journey
How I got here
Tap any step to read it. It's my own path, and most of it looks the same for families going through the district today.
My parents came to East Brunswick believing its public schools would create opportunities they never had. They were right about that. It's the reason my family is here at all.
Navigating the school system wasn't always straightforward. Placement requirements, graduation pathways, eligibility rules — understanding those became part of my education, because those decisions determined which opportunities were available to me.
That experience never really left. Long after graduating I found myself at Board of Education meetings, reading policies, budgets, and agendas. Not because I planned to run for office, but because I wanted to understand how decisions affecting thousands of students were actually made.
When hate incidents began affecting students in our schools, paying attention was no longer enough. The conversations that followed introduced me to parents, educators, and students whose experiences were different from mine but kept arriving at the same conclusion: the people most affected by school policies don't always have the strongest voice in creating them.
Why I decided to run
When hate incidents began affecting students in our schools, paying attention was no longer enough. I got involved in the community because I believed every student deserves to feel safe, respected, and represented. That is not a controversial position. It just has to be somebody's job to keep saying it out loud at the table where decisions get made.
Those conversations introduced me to parents, educators, and students whose experiences were different from my own but often led to the same conclusion: the people most affected by school policies don't always have the strongest voice in creating them. Teachers said it about staffing. Parents said it about placement. Students said it about being asked afterward instead of during.
That is what ultimately led me to run for the Board of Education. This site is the same idea in a different form — the budget, the pathways, and the tradeoffs laid out in plain language, so the conversation doesn't require a decoder.