Not your typical candidate bio.
I spent seven years as a bench researcher in academia. I loved the work at first, the problem solving, the thought that I might be improving lives somewhere. I also learned to ride during this time (3 bikes, 0 cars!). But 2016 on I increasingly felt like I was living in a different world than the people I rode with. And then COVID hit.
I think the pandemic changed course for a lot of people. For me, it let me spend even more time riding, Allowed me to meet my now-wife. And also triggered a strange series of events which ended with me changing careers into digital finance (read: Crypto), a job I hoped would help me change the world by letting people build new kinds of careers and sustainable businesses that didn't squeeze their customers.
Unfortunately, it didn't quite play out that way. At the least, though, it did at least give me a lot of insight into the market economy and the rest of the world.
My family moved out East, and my wife's family lives in Europe, so we decided to move to New Hampshire, my wife's first American home. I fell in love with it immediately, with its beautiful winding roads, changing seasons, and its strong, unpretentious communities. We bought our forever home here in Walpole, and are currently learning quite a bit about yard work.
I'll be the first to admit that I didn't grow up here. I'm not a veteran, not a community organizer, not a career politician. That last one is the point. I've never held office, never worked a campaign, and never wanted to until the choice came down to this or more of the same. I'd rather earn your vote honest than win it in a costume.
Because I stand for something, and I don't see it on the ballot. I stand for an America that works for everyone: homes you can build, doctors you can see, a government allowed to do its job. Most of what stands between us and that country is rules we wrote ourselves and refuse to fix.
Anyone can see that we don't live in ordinary times. AI is displacing thousands of workers. Inflation keeps soaring while salaries stay flat. Our executive and judicial branch are a potent mixture of corrupt, nefarious and incompetent. Yet all I see from our party is platitudes, faux outrage and career politicians moving up the ranks.
Enough is enough.
We don't have to reinvent the wheel to fix our country. We just need to have the honesty to see our problems, and the courage to fix them, even when it's hard.
Where I stand