Incumbent, member since 2020
Hello, NCRA members! I’ve been a board member since 2022 and your Legislative Chair since 2023. I’m excited to be running again for the 2026/27 term, and I’d be honored to receive your vote.
As the NCRA Legislative Chair, I’ve been busy tracking waste-related legislation and signing/ writing support letters on NCRA’s behalf. I started our organization’s first Legislative Tracker excel sheet and started holding monthly meetings for members interested in advocacy work in 2023. In 2024, I co-planned (with the amazing Gwynn Mackellen) NCRA’s first Advocacy Day at the state Capitol in decades. For two years in a row, we’ve gathered about 30 passionate NCRA members to listen to guest speakers, learn about priority bills we selected, and meet with legislators and staffers to lobby for our organization’s positions. It was an incredibly exciting and rewarding experience, and I’m looking forward to planning and attending more!
I find this position so rewarding, and I feel like I’ve just gotten started. I want to help make Advocacy Day a permanent, annual event for NCRA and for our organization to be a notable player in California legislation. I’d also like to help plan legislative activities for NCRA members like educational webinars or postcard-writing sessions. I’d love to continue as the Legislative Chair or co-chair, and eventually pass the torch on. Thank you for your vote!