01 / Tenure
6 yrs
Healthcare-rights attorney. 412 insurance-denial cases closed for Tampa Bay families.
Tampa Bay deserves a senator who shows up.
Healthcare-rights attorney. Six years closing insurance-denial cases. Zero corporate-PAC money. Running for State Senate, District 23.
Healthcare-rights attorney, 6 years · 412 insurance-denial cases closed · 0 corporate-PAC dollars
HB 7085 $10M recurring Sickle Cell Grant Program Signed SB 412 Insurance Denial Right-to-Appeal Act Passed Senate, died in House HB 1208 Coastal Resilience Block Grant Signed HB 553 Bilingual Constituent Services Funding Signed
What she has actually delivered.
Bills she wrote or co-authored. Outcomes recorded. Not aspirational.
HB 7085 Signed
$10M recurring Sickle Cell Grant Program.
Drafted with the Tampa Bay Sickle Cell Alliance. First recurring state funding line in Florida history. Took two sessions; won on the second.
Signed into law 2024
SB 412
Insurance Denial Right-to-Appeal Act.
Co-authored. Requires insurers to provide a written, plain-language denial reason within 14 days. Built from 412 cases of denied care for working-class clients.
Passed Senate, died in House 2025
HB 1208 Signed
Coastal Resilience Block Grant.
$340M five-year resilience pool for Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco seawall and stormwater. Replaced one-year line items with statutorily-required appropriation.
Passed both chambers 2024
HB 553 Signed
Bilingual Constituent Services Funding.
Funded full-time bilingual staff in every state office serving a CDP that is 25%+ Spanish-speaking. Town 'n' Country was the test case.
Signed into law 2024
No talking points. Just hers.
I have read every healthcare denial letter Tampa Bay families have brought to me for six years. The letters are the policy. The policy is the law. The law is what I'm running to write.
We can have a senator who shows up at the cigar workers' centennial in Ybor and we can have a senator who reads the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund quarterly report. The math is, you have to be both.
Tallahassee has had thirty years to update the tip-credit wage. They did not. I will. That's the entire job description.
Your neighborhood
District 23 is not one place. It is 8 so far.
Each neighborhood gets its own brief: local stats, local fights, local voices. Find yours below.
Bungalow craftsman neighborhoods north of downtown Tampa. Median rent in 33603 is up 38% since 2021, the steepest jump of any neighborhood in District 23.
Read the brief ›National Historic Landmark district, Cuban-Spanish-Italian heritage cigar town. Tourism economy. Hospitality workers. State tip-credit law is set in Tallahassee.
Read the brief ›Bayshore Boulevard south to MacDill. Higher-income but split politically. Flood exposure on the bay side is the issue every house knows.
Read the brief ›Fast-growth suburban Pasco. New schools, new subdivisions, new traffic. Healthcare access is the daily complaint.
Read the brief ›Mix of long-time residents, downtown high-rise renters, museum district. Sea-level rise is a math problem with a deadline.
Read the brief ›Census-Designated Place, dense suburban West Tampa. Heavily Latino (53%), large Cuban-American and Honduran communities. Working-class.
Read the brief ›August 18 is closer than you think
Tampa Bay deserves a senator who reads the bills.
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