If you've seen my palm card, my website, or any of my campaign materials, you've probably noticed four words: Champion. Fight. Advocate. Build.

Those aren't just words. They're a promise. And I want to take a minute to tell you exactly what each one means to me, and what it'll look like when I'm sitting on the District 10 School Board.

I want to take a moment, before the weekend gets away from us, to name what this holiday actually is. Not what it has become in the ads and the promotions, but what it has always been at its core.

Memorial Day is about the people who did not come home.

Hi, friends! 👋🏾 This past weekend, we discovered something really special in District 10: The Lot Market, a vendor marketplace at Chimney Hill Shopping Center right here in Virginia Beach.

District 10 stretches across the heart of Virginia Beach, from Timberlake and Chimney Hill in the north to Landstown and Dam Neck in the south. It's home to thousands of families, hundreds of classrooms, and one of the largest military communities in the entire city.

I want to say something plainly: the work that determines what happens in November is happening right now, friends.

On April 24th, we officially launched my campaign for Virginia Beach City School Board, District 10, and my campaign staff and I have been riding the energy of that room ever since! I want to take a moment to come back here, in this space, and say thank you the way it deserves to be said.