Vision for Aurora

Platform: The Issues

  • Economic Prosperity for Everyone

    Aurora’s future depends on creating an economy that works for all, and we must do this together. By aligning businesses and community-led organizations with the needs of Aurora residents and also fostering opportunities for growth, we can build a city where everyone can thrive.

    Key Initiatives:

    1. Strengthening Local Businesses:
    Support small businesses and entrepreneurs with resources, training, and access to microloans, keeping jobs and opportunity within our community.

    2. Public-Private Partnerships:
    Collaborate with private organizations to create job opportunities and remove barriers to employment, fostering self-sufficiency amongst our residents. 

    3. Supporting High-Quality Jobs for Aurora:
    Advocate for high quality jobs for all to ensure Aurora’s workers can support themselves and their families.

    4. Fostering Creativity and Innovation:
    Build an environment that encourages entrepreneurship, innovation, and revitalization, in order to drive economic growth across Aurora.

  • Affordable & Accessible Housing For All

    Housing is a fundamental right. My vision for Aurora is a city where the American Dream is a reality for everyone, which includes making housing affordability attainable. By working together, we’ll address housing challenges with bold solutions that meet the needs of all residents.

    Key Initiatives:

    1. Transitional Housing:
    Implement programs that combine affordable housing with critical services, helping individuals and families regain stability and autonomy.

    2. Workforce Housing:
    Develop housing options tailored to low- and middle-income workers like teachers, healthcare professionals, social workers, retail and service workers, and first responders - essential members of our community who often fall through the cracks of traditional housing programs.

    3. Supportive Housing:
    Invest in supportive housing solutions that combine permanent housing with vital services, improving stability and reducing homelessness while saving public funds.

  • Public Safety for Aurora - Together

    Every Aurora resident deserves to feel safe and secure in their community. I’m committed to innovative strategies that prioritize healing, understanding, and prevention, and focuses on restorative justice, youth engagement, and trauma-informed care.

    Key Initiatives:

    1. Expanding Restorative Justice:
    By prioritizing programs that focus on healing and reconciliation, together, we can reduce recidivism and create a more compassionate, effective justice system.

    2. Engaging Aurora’s Youth:
    I propose free access to all recreation centers, sports leagues, and reservoirs for residents under 18 - this will both empower our youth and steer them toward brighter futures.

    3. Trauma-Informed Training for First Responders:
    EMS, fire, and police personnel will receive specialized training to better support individuals who have experienced trauma.

    4. Cultural Competency Around Public Safety: Aurora’s diversity is its strength, and cultural competency is essential for fostering trust and understanding between public safety officials and the communities they serve. I propose creating a Cultural Competency Advisory Board made up of a diverse array of community members and leaders to provide input on policies, training, and practices that reflect Aurora’s cultural diversity. By prioritizing cultural competence together, we can ensure public safety efforts are equitable and effective for all. 

Other Platforms

  • Aurora’s future depends on clean air, safe water, and responsible growth. We must use innovative and forward-thinking solutions that will sustain our growth for generations without the threat of health risks to our people. 


    Key Initiatives:

    • Protect Natural Resources: Resources like the Aurora Reservoir, which is the city’s main water storage location, are vital to the community providing billions of gallons of fresh water to our people. Fracking near these water sources puts our health and safety at risk - releasing dangerous pollutants into the air and threatening to contaminate our water. We must strengthen protections and keep harmful drilling away from our water.

    • Guarantee the Right to Clean Water: PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, contaminate our groundwater and drinking water which are a constant threat to our residents. Waste storage, sewer and treatment plants, military sites and the airport are primary sources of PFAS contributing to this dangerous chemical being continuously introduced in Aurora’s water sources. Aurora must meet the EPA’s clean water standards and do more to prevent these toxins from entering our water in the first place.

    • Keeping Residents Safe - People Over Polluters: In Colorado, corporations often own underground mineral rights and can extract resources even if it harms homeowners. Too often, residents are not even told about this - developers, HOAs or Metro Districts will give or sell these rights without the homeowners permission. Aurora must fight to return these rights to the people and ensure no large company can put our health or homes at risk.

  • Aurora’s fast developing city and growing population needs a strong, dependable labor force to match its exponential growth. We need to develop a strong public and private sector relationship by using better practices for contracting and setting high labor standards where workers have a dignified wage and protections and the quality of work sustains our great city.

    Key Initiatives:

    • Support Collective Bargaining for City Workers: Municipal Employees are key to many of the services that we depend on in this thriving city of ours. Supporting unionizing and collective bargaining for our city workers will improve training and development, strengthen dispute resolution, and ensure we have a high quality workforce that is efficient and effective in helping Aurora flourish into the future.

    • Practice Best Value Contracting: When considering public construction, the best combination of performance qualifications, expertise and price should all factor together. Proposals or bids must factor risk assessments and long term value and consider incentivizing vendors for higher quality and longevity. This will allow Aurora to build for future generations with greater innovations for long term success and less waste.

    • Enacting Higher Standards: Setting higher labor standards will ensure that Aurora’s workers are safe, protected and empowered to build infrastructures that last. Creating and upholding stronger worker rights and protections will create a consistency of increased productivity with greater retention and less employee turnover.