I am from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana. I have spent eighteen years organizing in communities like the one I come from, and I am running for the Public Service Commission because the decisions that set the price of heat and light get made a long way from the people who pay for them.
Fort Peck is home. It is also a place where the distance between a decision and the people it affects is measured in hours of driving. Growing up there teaches you which families lose power first when a bill comes due, which roads wash out before a county meeting gets cancelled, and how often a notice arrives after the comment period has closed.
My work has been Indigenous advocacy and community organizing: getting people to a hearing, translating a proceeding into plain language, and making sure the tribal nations in this part of the state are consulted as governments rather than as members of the public. That work is not separate from utility regulation. It is the same skill, applied to a body that most people have never heard of.
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I hold a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, I am pursuing a master's in psychology, and I am near completion of a second bachelor's in elementary education. I won the Democratic primary unopposed on June 2, 2026 with 12,294 votes.
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Montana elects five Public Service Commissioners. They regulate the investor owned utilities that sell electricity, natural gas, water and telecommunications service, setting rates for 524,786 metered electric and gas customers, about 60 percent of the market. Those customers cannot choose another provider, which is why the office exists at all.
A rate case is thousands of pages of testimony and accounting. The job is to read it, question it, and be able to explain the result.
Commissioners sit as a quasi judicial body, taking evidence on the record and deciding in public session.
The seat is elected for a six year term and represents a specific district. District 1 is most of eastern Montana.
District 1 is the largest Public Service Commission district in Montana by geography. Gas money and yard signs are most of the budget. Anything you can give goes straight into reaching voters who have never been asked about their power bill.
