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What experiences and perspectives would you contribute to Town Meeting?
I have been raising three young kids in Winchester with my husband since 2018. Since first moving to town, I have become deeply involved in our community. I have served on the Board of Directors for Children’s Own School since 2023, and have been the President of the Board since 2024. In 2025, I was appointed to the Winchester Committee for Community Preservation and helped bring the WCCP through its first pilot round of funding, first as Vice Chair and then as Chair of the Committee. I am keyed in to the most pressing issues facing young families in Winchester, and would bring that experience to my work as a Town Meeting member.
I am also a lawyer in private practice with mostly public sector clients, including many towns in Massachusetts. Because of this, I have years of experience with the Town Meeting form of government and have sat in on, and advised, many Town Meeting sessions on complicated legal issues and questions of parliamentary procedure.
What are two or three issues facing Winchester that you think are most important and what are your positions on them?
Three critical and interrelated issues facing Winchester today are the upcoming override, education, and future housing needs of the town. Families are drawn to Winchester in large part for our schools' excellent reputation, and careful continued investment in our schools is essential to maintain and grow that reputation. I closely followed the debt exclusion override for Lynch School in 2023 and was proud of the overwhelming support that rebuilding the school received from the Town. Looking forward, we need to balance our investment in schools with investment in our long-term residents, and how to welcome new residents to town via careful land use planning. The work the State of the Town did in 2025 and early 2026 to get us to a solid override number is a great start for all of this work, but it will be nearly as important to ensure that our future budgets and appropriations are just as carefully considered and executed.
What is a special challenge in your precinct that might not be faced in other precincts?
Although Precinct 7 is not alone in this, we are split across three different elementary school districts. Kids who live across the street from one another could go to Ambrose, Lynch, or VO. For this reason, I think that meetings organized at a precinct level are particularly important to connect neighbors who might not interact at school pickup. On a more visual level, I wish that better care could be given to the trees that famously line the streets around Precinct 7 so that we could avoid continuing to cut them down – or, at a minimum, trees could be planted to replace any that must be removed.
Why should voters elect you to represent them?
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