AISD belongs to all of us.

  • Every staff member and student deserves an advocate.
  • Every family deserves a voice.
  • Every taxpayer deserves accountability.

Every community deserves a district that works with it, not around it.

Our students, families, educators, and community deserve to be heard, informed, and included. That means listening before decisions are made, providing families with the information they need, advocating for students—including those receiving special education and Title I supports—and demanding transparency and accountability from the district.

I’m running to listen to our community, advocate for campus staff and students who need support, bring transparency to district decisions, and hold AISD accountable for delivering on its promises.

Meet Marie My Priorities
What I’ll Bring to the Board

Listen first. Ask hard questions.
Follow through.

Our community deserves a trustee who listens first, provides education and transparently informs the community, asks hard questions, and follows through.

I will champion strong special education services, protect the supports our students and families depend on, make district information accessible and understandable, and ensure our community has a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect our children.

My Priorities

Listen. Inform. Advocate. Accountability.

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Listen

Your voice belongs at the table.

I will listen to students, parents, educators, staff, and our community—not just when it is convenient, but when it is hard. I will listen before decisions are made.

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Inform

An informed community is a powerful community.

District decisions can be complicated. Families and staff deserve clear, accessible information about policies, budgets, programs, and the decisions affecting their children.

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Advocate

Every child deserves the support to succeed.

I will fight for strong special education services, meaningful supports, literacy, and the resources students and educators need to thrive.

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Accountability

Trust is earned through transparency and follow-through.

I will ask the hard questions, seek transparency, examine the numbers, and hold the district accountable for the decisions it makes.

Why Marie?

Vote for me because I don’t just represent
this community, I’m part of it.

Who I Am

  • 👩A mom
  • 📣An advocate
  • 📖A reading interventionist
  • ♿️A disability rights advocate
  • ❤️A person with disabilities and a parent of children with disabilities
  • 🏫An Austin ISD parent and volunteer since 2010

I believe public education works best when the people making decisions are willing to listen to the people living with those decisions every day.

This campaign is about staff and students. It’s about families. And it’s about making sure our community has a seat at the table.

I’ve spent years advocating for students, families, and marginalized communities—and I know firsthand how important it is to have someone willing to listen, educate, inform, speak up, and keep pushing for better.

I live here. I work here. And I’ve been an Austin ISD parent and volunteer since 2010.

I’m not running for AISD Trustee as a stepping stone or to simply sit on the dais. I’m running to bring the voices of our community with me.

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Community

A seat at the table, not a seat in the audience

This campaign runs on conversations. Here is how we keep the community in the room where decisions get made.

01

Neighborhood Listening Sessions

Small, open conversations across District 6 — campuses, coffee shops, living rooms. You talk, I take notes, and the notes go to work.

02

Plain-Language Explainers

Budgets, bond packages, and board agendas translated out of district jargon and into language families and staff can actually use.

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Family & Educator Advisory

Standing input from special education families, Title I campuses, paraprofessionals, and teachers — before votes, not after.

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Show Up Where People Are

Campus events, PTA meetings, community nights. Accessibility means meeting people where they already are.

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Follow-Through Reports

What I heard, what I asked, what the district said, and what happened next. Written down and shared publicly.

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Doors Open Both Ways

Questions get answered. If I don’t know, I’ll say so — and then I’ll go find out.

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