A new voice
for Santa Clarita

If you're not from around here

Meet Santa Clarita

A lot of people in Los Angeles have driven through Santa Clarita without realizing how big it is. Just north of the San Fernando Valley, it's the third-largest city in Los Angeles County — home to more than 230,000 people, behind only Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The city is split into five council districts. I ran to represent District 4. It covers Saugus, along with parts of Valencia and Canyon Country.

Why I ran

Public service has always been part of my life

I've always cared about people and the world we live in, and wanted to leave it a little better than I found it — from volunteering with a police youth program as a teenager, to riding an ambulance, to years of search and rescue. Politics felt like a logical extension of that same idea, just on a larger scale.

I wasn't trying to become a politician. I wanted to see whether someone with a regular job, a family and a lot of time spent helping neighbors could take part in local government — and bring a few new perspectives to the table.

Win or lose, I learned a tremendous amount about my city, met thousands of my neighbors, and came away more convinced than ever that local government works best when more people get involved.