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WHERE I COME FROM
A Texan Through and Through
I am the youngest of seven on my father’s side, and a middle child of six on my mother’s. If you’ve ever been both the youngest and the middle child, you learn early how to listen, how to wait your turn, and how to make yourself heard when it matters. Those lessons stuck.
Part of a Texas Legacy
family and service
A Military Family That Taught Me What Duty Looks Like
Service isn’t an abstract value in my family, it’s a way of life. My father, my grandfather, and my grandmother all served in the Army. My aunt, my sister, and my next older brother serve in the Texas Army National Guard. We are a military family, and what that means in our house is this: when your community needs you, you don’t ask what’s in it for you. You step up.
That’s the foundation I was raised on. Step up when you see injustice. Show up for your neighbors. Don’t wait for someone else to do the hard thing.That upbringing didn't prepare me for a career, it prepared me to serve.
Roots in the Texas hill country
Connected to This Land Across Generations
My father grew up in Leander. My grandparents still call it home. Every spring growing up, we made the drive out to camp in the area, a tradition we called “birthday camping” because it fell on my grandmother’s and aunt’s birthdays in early April. Those trips are some of my clearest memories: wide open Texas sky, family around a fire, the kind of slow time that stays with you.
There’s something about knowing a place across generations that changes the way you see it. When I talk about fighting for Texas communities, I’m not speaking in talking points. I’m talking about the roads we drove, the land we camped on, the towns my family has called home for decades. This is personal.
Why I'm Running
The Same Reason I’ve Always Had
I started wanting to help people when I was ten. I trained as an EMT. I worked in hospitals. I studied political systems. Every step has been toward the same goal, a community where people aren’t left behind, where the systems that are supposed to catch people actually do, and where the people making decisions are ones who have lived the same life as the people they serve.
I’m not a career politician. I’m a Texan who has seen what happens when good policy is absent and what’s possible when it isn’t. I’m running because the work has to be done, and I believe I’m ready to do it.
