What I Fight For
Fighting for us
Tonya is a hands-on, compassionate servant-leader. She has used her skills and abilities to advocate for the community. She is committed to fighting for laws and policies that treat all people with dignity and to eliminating systemic barriers that disparately impact the poor, disenfranchised, and working class.
I will fight to protect the health and safety of all Michigan residents. I will fight to ensure all members of our community have a viable path to prosperity.
I will fight to expand paid sick leave laws, expand child care assistance, reform the unemployment system, increase college and trade school assistance, increase protections from unjust foreclosures and evictions, and have real affordability plans for water and utilities.
Public money should be used for the public good. I will work to implement measures that require corporations to provide common-sense community benefits in exchange for receiving public money in the form of grants, tax incentives, and other publicly funded incentives. I will fight to protect school and library funding for the public good, not private development.
Housing is a human right. Every person in our community should have access to safe, affordable, and accessible housing. I will fight for laws that keep our neighbors in their homes, decrease homelessness, and provide equitable and affordable home ownership and rental opportunities.
Everyone should be able to breathe clean and healthy air. I will fight to improve the air quality in our neighborhoods and protect our waterways and greenways, increasing penalties and deterrence laws against corporate polluter, and support community-led clean energy initiatives
Our justice system is broken. “It is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status”. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, Jr.
I will fight for a right to provide legal representation for low-income people facing eviction, funding for unemployment appeals, or loss of public benefits. I will fight for resources for public civil and criminal legal defense and increase access to mental health care, addiction rehabilitation services, community care, and wrap-around services as alternatives to incarceration.
ENDORSEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST)
UAW Region 1A
SEIU Michigan
MEA (Michigan Education Assoc.)
Michigan Nurses Association
IBEW Local 58
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan
MI United Action
Fems for Dems
MI List
We The People Action Fund
Mothering Justice Action Fund
Yemeni American Political Action Committee
13th Congressional District Democrats
American Arab and Muslim Political Action Committee
Fannie Lou Hamer PAC
Detroit Action
The Black Slate
The Original Eastside Slate
Eastside Community Slate
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
Senator Stephanie Chang
State Representative Abraham Aiyash
State Representative Donavan McKinney
Tiffany Tilley, State Board of Education Member
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield
Detroit City Council Member Mary Waters
Detroit City Council Member Angela Calloway
Detroit City Council Member Gabriella Santiago-Romero
Detroit City Council Member Latisha Johnson
“Love isn’t about what we did yesterday; it’s about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”