Our Platform

Premiums have doubled and tripled in some cases, and many have decided to forgo insurance entirely. This means that many are one environmental disaster away from losing everything.

The homeowners' and renters' insurance industry needs to be brought into alignment with environmental risks and their obligations to consumers. Premiums can be lowered if insurance companies work with policymakers to incentivize behaviors and home improvements that mitigate the impact of environmental disasters like wildfires, floods, and earthquakes.

The high cost of food and doubling health insurance premiums and costs means that many families will choose to forgo both to continue to afford their housing. This trade-off is unacceptable. Approximately 10% of our district members use food stamps (Supplemental Food Assistance Program), and 29% are on Medi-Cal (and therefore not on employer-sponsored plans). Almost half of SNAP recipient households are elderly, and over a third have a child under 18. Thirty-nine percent include someone with a disability. Medi-Cal and SNAP serve our most vulnerable.

Congress has already cut these programs significantly by introducing work requirements and eliminating healthcare subsidies. The introduction of work requirements is expected to sharply increase the number of uninsured Americans. I will represent you in restoring these benefits and strengthening the social safety net. Just as the Affordable Care Act halved the percent of our district population that is uninsured, therefore saving lives, I will advocate for universal healthcare and a more robust food security so that no one, especially our most vulnerable constituents—the elderly, the poor, children, and those with disabilities—ever has to make that impossible choice of giving up food or health.

Artificial intelligence-related companies are believed to comprise 80% of U.S. stock market gains in 2025. Artificial intelligence, as a technology, offers incredible opportunities for automation and improved quality of life. However, the fears of job displacement are warranted, and AI companies have profited off stolen creative work, which our local union contracts have fought to mitigate. But more needs to be done to protect our artists and their property.

Regulation needs to be created with an understanding of what AI can do and with an eye toward the long term. So long as there are problems in the United States, there will be jobs for solving them. If AI takes jobs from the private sector, the increased productivity should provide the tax revenue for creating these new jobs.

Our district is also no stranger to corporations failing to dispose of waste or store energy properly within our boundaries. AI's unbridled growth is threatening water resources for other vulnerable communities and energy resources throughout the nation. As a climate scientist and long-time resident of the San Fernando Valley, for whom the Porter Ranch Gas Leak had significant financial impact, I will build coalitions in Congress across party lines to protect constituents from these unscrupulous behaviors by corporations.

The AI stock market gains are believed to be a bubble similar to the dot-com boom. I believe there should be no federal bailout for AI or crypto companies. We need to put an end to too big to fail. That money is better spent supporting the healthcare, food security, and education of our constituents.

In addition, AI poses unknown risks to psychological health and can be weaponized by malicious actors. As a tech worker who is versed in AI technologies and the models that underpin them, I am well-equipped to represent CA-32 to work with AI companies to better understand and regulate their industry to keep our constituents safe.

Our immigration system is broken. While Trump has openly threatened naturalized and birthright citizenship, which form the basis of at least a third of CA-32 constituents' citizenship, we have heard nothing from Representative Sherman regarding his plans to fight this. I will fight to protect the existing pathways to U.S. citizenship and the visa statuses, like green cards and Temporary Protected Status, that many Americans have lived with for decades. Under both Biden and Trump, visa processing has been extremely slow, and those bureaucratic delays have kept our community members from visiting a dying parent. Delays with no end in sight have prevented hardworking members of our district from planning for the future. This is silent and systematic cruelty. I will also protect our undocumented community members, who contribute to our economy and pay taxes but are ineligible for many of the public benefits.

U.S. citizens (including children with cancer) have been abducted and deported by ICE, and many of our U.S. citizen constituents presently carry their passports in fear of this possibility. If our citizen community members are feeling this way, the psychological trauma being dealt upon our non-citizen community members is unfathomable. Immigrant detention can cost the taxpayer $200 per night per prisoner, with no oversight or accountability for living conditions. Thirty-one people died in ICE detention in 2025, the highest number since 2004.

Given that ICE is incapable of following our constitution and being accountable to its taxpayers, Congress needs to act to hold the agency accountable and remove its funding. The allocations to immigration enforcement, including ICE, from the July 2025 'One Big Beautiful Bill' (OBBB) is estimated to cost $1 trillion, the same amount that the OBBB cut from Medicaid, SNAP, and our other safety net programs. It is an ethical obligation and fiscal imperative that immigrant detention and ICE be investigated, held accountable for their abuses, and defunded.

Trump and Secretary RFK Jr. have openly attacked science funding while quietly moving funding away from aging, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and mental health. These actions have damaged our institutions and overall public health, with numerous measles outbreaks threatening our country's status of having eliminated the disease since 2000. Universities and healthcare companies are among the biggest employers in California, and education and science funding are the engines of the American Dream and socioeconomic mobility. Publicly funded science has been the bedrock of American healthcare advances and our international soft power. Science has helped us live longer and healthier lives by curing and preventing disease. Science is the foundation of our ability to estimate and mitigate climate change and our community's resilience to it.

I have had the privilege of conducting scientific research at the top institutions in California and the nation, and I know the incredible innovation that it involves and the more equitable future it can help build. I will represent CA-32 in fighting to restore our science and education funding.