A vision for Carrboro with Carolina roots.

I’ve lived in North Carolina my entire life—I was born on Ft. Bragg, grew up in Raleigh, and my wife and I met at UNC-Chapel Hill before we decided to raise our family in Carrboro. In many ways, Carrboro is the community we’d always hoped to live in, but we’re increasingly faced with the stark reality of how hard families have to work to keep up with the cost of living.

Skyrocketing housing costs, a lack of imagination in developing transit systems and infrastructure, and equity gaps in our local businesses and schools threaten to undermine the sense of community Carrboro has worked so hard to build. My years of experience organizing for racial and economic justice in Carrboro have demonstrated the urgent necessity for a local movement building multiracial, multigenerational solidarity to reimagine the ways we use local government.

Carrboro’s legacy as a progressive leader has meant a great deal to my family, but if we want to honor that legacy, we need to organize proactively to set a regional example as a town built around justice and a high quality of life for all its citizens.