Our workforce, our community, and our local economy are strengthened when we pay all workers a livable wage. Fair wages should extend to incarcerated Vermonters.

I am a proud member of UVM Staff United and believe that union membership strengthens collective pride in our institutions. The right to organize must be extended to our domestic and agricultural workers. The right to strike must be extended to include state employees, including staff in our colleges and universities.

We must teach our children with an honest reckoning for the systemic racism and white supremacy upon which this nation was built. Our educators are the experts in how our children learn best and we have an obligation to protect our teachers as they engage with that expertise.

Abortion is healthcare. A woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body are fundamental and undeniable.

We reside on unceded colonized land and we have an obligation to repair the continuing harm to its original caretakers (the Abenaki First Nations of Odanak and Wôlinak). In violation of United Nations standards, the State of Vermont failed to include these legitimate First Nations when they recognized self-identified groups.