Meet Heather
Worker. Advocate. Neighbor.
Ward 5’s community is filled with renters, workers, and families trying to build a stable life in New Hampshire, I should know, I’m one of them! The working class built our NH neighborhoods and its long past time to have working class Granite Staters representing them.
I’m originally from Washington State but have lived and worked in all four corners of the United States. Through my travels I have seen the many ways that people live, work, argue, play, and, eventually, build community with each other. Every region has a rhythm, and though individual citizens struggles are shaped by their environment, building community from it remains the same. You show up, you listen, you do work within your capacity, and you gather mentorship whenever it is offered.
Now I call New Hampshire my home! I love Manchester, my neighborhood, and all the people who keep this city going, even when the state makes it harder than it needs to be. Like most young couples here, my husband and I dream of starting a family, assuming we can save up enough to afford housing, childcare, healthcare, gas, groceries, and just the tax of even existing!
I know this state can be a place where more working class people can afford to stay and build a life, but our current state representation directly makes it more difficult more young Granite Staters to survive. My husband and I dream of buying a home and having children in Manchester, yet every day we feel this basic next step of life continues to be out of reach.
I also acknowledge that we already have a lot more stability and privilege than many of our neighbors. We both have jobs, a place to live, food in the kitchen, and enough free time for me to give some of it back to my community. Through my volunteering with local mutual aid groups I have met many neighbors who come for help week after week because their basic needs continue to not be met, and they do not foresee the city actually stepping up to change it.
My first real steps into local politics happened here in Ward 5, with last years No Kings protest. I was angry at the world, scared of what was happening to our country, and tired of feeling useless sitting at home, so I looked for the first opportunity to actually get to know my community and do something with my burgeoning passion.
That protest introduced me to the amazing volunteers of the Mutual Aid Relief Fund (MARF) and I was invited to volunteer the very next day, so I did! I kept that energy going, starting with volunteering every weekend, followed by getting involved with canvassing efforts, attending community events, running for Ward Clerk, working the polls, and eventually being selected as a Ward 5 Selectman.
The more I did, the more obvious it became that working class people already knew what our communities need, we just needed more of us stepping up to do the work.
I joined DSA because I wanted to be part of a movement that is actually serious about bringing power to the working class, and I am proud to call myself a Democratic Socialist. I believe in and will continue to fight for Housing for All, Universal Healthcare, Fully Funded Public Education, and above all Supporting Working Families, because we should not have to scrape or beg for a decent and fulfilling life.
As the largest Socialist Organization in the history of the United State, I believe a movement by workers, for workers, can bring necessary compassion and change to Concord, and in turn, the citizens of New Hampshire.
I’m running because I know that with a working class coalition, New Hampshire can be a place where all Granite Staters can afford a secure roof over their heads, a quality public education, full coverage healthcare, and be left with enough time and stability to give back to their own communities. None of these things should feel like luxuries and it will be up to all of us to create a reality in which these are basic rights.
I can not, and do not intend to do this fight alone, but I can listen, be honest, support my local community, and help put one more working class Granite Stater in the State House.
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