Practical Leadership. Community Focused.

I’m a wife, a mother, a business owner, and someone who has never been afraid to roll up her sleeves and get involved.

I was raised by a nurse and an auto worker and spent much of my childhood around my grandfather’s farm. Those experiences taught me the value of hard work, personal responsibility, and treating people with respect regardless of their background or station in life.

Like many families, ours worked hard for everything we achieved. My husband Brad and I built our lives together, raised our family, started businesses, and learned firsthand the challenges that families, workers, and entrepreneurs face every day.

My family’s roots trace back to Bowmanville, another Ontario community built on industry, agriculture, and Great Lakes trade. It’s interesting to see how communities like Bowmanville and Thornbury helped build Ontario through farming, shipping, milling, and manufacturing—industries that still shape our communities today.

While I grew up in Bowmanville, I later rasied my own family in a small town called Aurora, where I became involved in my community because I genuinely cared about what was happening around me. What started as attending meetings, volunteering, and speaking up on local issues eventually led me to run for Council. In 2018, residents placed their trust in me, and I was honoured to be elected. for nearly a decade serving my community as a municipal councillor.

Outside of politics, my career has taken me through landscape design, finance, publishing, sales, hospitality, and business development. Those experiences gave me something valuable that can’t be learned from a textbook: an understanding of people. I’ve worked with business owners trying to make payroll, families balancing household budgets, volunteers building stronger communities, and organizations trying to do more with less.

My connection to Georgian Bay began long before politics entered my life. My husband and I have spent nearly 30 years boating these waters, exploring the shoreline, supporting local businesses, and enjoying everything that makes this region special. A few years ago, we purchased property here, became a local entrepreneur and decided to finally make The Town of The Blue Mountains our primary home.

What attracted us here is the same thing that attracts so many others: the small-town character, the natural beauty, the sense of community, the farms and orchards, the trails, the bay, and the people who care deeply about protecting all of it.

I believe good leadership starts with listening. It requires preparation, common sense, and the willingness to make decisions when decisions need to be made. I believe in protecting what makes our communities special while planning responsibly for the future.

Most importantly, I believe public service is about people. It’s about showing up, doing the work, and never forgetting who you work for.

That’s the approach I’ve always taken, and it’s the approach I will continue to bring to The Town of The Blue Mountains.