May Leader — A Practical Vision for the Virgin Islands
Why I’m Running
I’m running for Senate because too many Virgin Islanders are doing everything they can and still feel unsupported. We are resilient people — we prepare for storms, we help our neighbors, and we raise our children with pride. But resilience should not mean carrying the burden alone.
Leadership should feel close and responsive. It should listen first, understand real-life challenges, and act with accountability. My goal is to help build systems that reflect how we actually live — systems that support families, strengthen opportunity, and restore trust in government.
Mental Health
Mental health affects nearly every part of life in the Virgin Islands, even when it isn’t openly discussed. After repeated hurricane seasons, during economic uncertainty, and under the daily pressure of providing for our families, emotional strain builds quietly.
Parents are managing stress while trying to stay strong for their children. Students carry anxiety and unresolved trauma into classrooms. Seniors face isolation, especially when loved ones move away or recovery after storms takes longer than expected.
Mental health is not separate from education, public safety, or economic stability — it shapes how we learn, work, and care for one another.
My focus as Senator will be to expand school-based mental health services, strengthen community partnerships with healthcare providers and nonprofit organizations, encourage employers to include mental health services as part of employee benefits, and advocate for stable funding that treats mental wellness as essential infrastructure.
Supporting mental health at every level helps families stay strong, workplaces stay productive, and communities stay safe.
Education
Education remains one of the strongest pathways to opportunity in the Virgin Islands, but students need more than academic instruction to succeed. They need support, stability, and a clear connection between learning and life beyond the classroom.
Teachers and school staff are working hard, often with limited resources, and increasing responsibilities. Students cannot thrive academically when emotional stress, unmet needs, or uncertainty about their future weighs them down.
Education should prepare students not only to graduate, but to move confidently into adulthood.
As Senator, my education priorities include supporting teacher recruitment and retention, expanding student support services such as counseling and after-school programs, and creating stronger career pathways that connect students to real-world experience before graduation.
I will support partnerships between schools, local businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies that provide students with paid internships, apprenticeships, and career mentorship while still in school. These programs help students gain experience, earn credentials, and build confidence — while strengthening the local workforce.
Homelessness & Housing Stability
Housing stability is essential to family wellbeing and community strength. Rising housing costs and limited availability have made stability harder to achieve for working families, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and those recovering from hardship.
When housing becomes uncertain, the effects ripple outward — children struggle in school, health concerns grow, and families live under constant stress.
As Senator, I will support coordinated housing strategies across government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private partners, expand emergency assistance and transitional housing options, and invest in prevention efforts that help people remain housed before situations escalate.
Safe, stable housing strengthens families, improves health outcomes, and helps communities thrive.
As Senator, it is my number 1 priority to serve the real needs, visible and invisible, of Virgin Islanders. For far too long, politicians have been complacent while families suffer in silence or have their voices ignored. Yet we falsely believe that we deserve their vote come election time.
I, too, and tired of the old political circus. I am tired of the empty promises that don’t meet the needs of the people who uphold our Territory. Working hard, but not seeing a future in our homeland. Trying to be strong when the realities of day-to-day life are weakening us. It is time for us to cast of pretenses of change and really face the facts as they are, so true transformation can take place in the Territory.
We can not take our focus off of the people whose bones are in the soil of the Virgin Islands while paying homage to those who come to get a version of paradise that does not exist for the locals. This must stop now. We must remember that we are a resilient people, a people of character, strength, determination, dignity, history and promise. The only way we live to the ideals of our ancestors is to become the change we wish to see.
As Senator, I will do what it takes to put the focus of Virgin Island politics back on Virgin Islanders. Let’s work together to build a brighter future for our Territory.