Elected Experience: None

Other Professional Experience: Self-employed acupuncturist and small business owner for 20 years. Adjunct faculty at Bastyr University. Executive director, Acupuncture Association of Washington. Past-President, Washington East Asian Medicine Association.

Education: Master of Science / Bachelor of Science, Bastyr University, 1997. Associate of Arts in Business Management, Green River Community College, 1994.

Community Service: I have spent 20 years caring for the health of my community. I have been active politically to ensure that Washington healthcare consumers have access to a diversity of care and fair treatment by their insurance companies.

Statement: State government has grown rapidly under the watch of both major parties, yet we’re not adequately funding education or infrastructure. We need to do like anyone in a financial bind, redefine the word ‘need’ and only pay for what we must. We don’t need more taxation; we need better priorities.

Addiction won’t be beat by branding people criminals. Poverty won’t be solved by making more people dependent on the state. We need criminal justice reform, programs that encourage self-reliance, adequate mental health services, and functional basic education. Everyone in Washington deserves dignity and stewardship over their own lives.