Families are working hard. The math still is not working.
Across Eastern Jackson County, people are doing everything right and still feeling squeezed. Groceries cost more. Gas costs more. Childcare eats up a paycheck. Healthcare bills arrive when families can least afford them.
Keri will fight for good-paying jobs, workforce training, affordable childcare, lower healthcare costs, support for small businesses, and policies that help people get ahead.
Safety is not a slogan. It is whether help comes when people need it.
Keri believes every family deserves to feel safe at home, at school, and in their neighborhood. With a background in criminal justice and social work, she knows public safety takes more than tough talk.
Real safety means supporting first responders, investing in prevention, expanding mental health care, strengthening crisis response, and dealing with problems before they become tragedies.
Public schools are where Missouri’s future is built.
Every child deserves a strong public school, no matter their ZIP code. Every teacher deserves respect, support, and the resources to do the job.
Keri will defend public schools, support teachers and staff, expand school-based mental health care, protect local control, and make sure every child has a fair shot.
No family should have to beg the system for care.
Keri has seen what happens when healthcare is too expensive, mental health care is too hard to find, and families are left to navigate the system alone.
As a master social worker, she will fight to lower healthcare costs, expand preventive care, strengthen community-based services, and treat mental health like the urgent healthcare issue it is.
Government should work for people – not against them.
Keri believes public service should mean listening, telling the truth, respecting voters, and doing the work. Families should not have to fight their own government to be heard.
She will stand up for workers, defend personal healthcare decisions, protect the will of the people, and push back when politicians put headlines before real solutions.
