DELIVERING RESULTS
From Families to the Environment to Small Businesses,
Sonya Stands Up for What Matters.
Sonya’s track record proves that she’s dedicated to listening to you and then working relentlessly to get things done.
Sonya listens. She’s met with people from each of Clackamas County’s fifteen cities and unincorporated areas, to hear their concerns.
These meetings informed her priorities to create opportunities to make a good living; build a community that’s safe and affordable; ensure every person has a roof over their head; preserve the water, clean air, and open spaces of our region; and help our kids thrive.
CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Sonya is a relentless advocate for every family in our community. She knows first hand what it’s like when government isn’t serving the most vulnerable families, and that’s why she’s a fierce advocate for kids and adults with disabilities and a strong supporter of the Family Justice Center, where county government supports survivors of domestic violence and child abuse with everything they need to stay safe and get back on their feet.
Sonya has dedicated funding to rural broadband so students in every part of our county will be able to access reliable internet during remote learning, and she helped create new libraries in Gladstone and Oak Lodge.
JOBS & THE ECONOMY
As a small business owner herself, Sonya knows firsthand the economic impact of the pandemic and what’s needed for businesses to not just recover, but thrive. She’s helping our small businesses through a major investment in the chamber of commerce, funding rural broadband so businesses and employees can work better from home, and expanding good-paying jobs that can support a family.
Sonya will continue investing in infrastructure projects that create local jobs, new public libraries and parks that create connections for our community. She is strongly opposed to tolling because it would have a disproportionate and disparate effect on the residents of Clackamas County.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS
Sonya knows Clackamas County residents need to be able to afford to live in the community they love. She is facing the homelessness crisis head-on and expanding homeless services to help people living along I-205 or in their cars to move into stable housing, utilizing our tax dollars wisely. She cut red tape to incentivize builders to create more of the affordable housing our community so desperately needs.
Sonya will continue safeguarding dollars from Metro’s housing bond, creating a plan unique to Clackamas County so we can keep cutting through red tape and investing in building more housing and creating assistance programs to keep families from being evicted.
ENVIRONMENT
As the daughter of a produce buyer, Sonya grew up valuing Oregon’s agricultural economy and communities. As a hiker and lover of our natural environment , she also cares about protecting our beautiful landscape with better plans for responsible forest management and wildfire mitigation.
She’ll also prioritize an action plan to reduce our carbon footprint to keep our communities green for both farming and family recreation.
COMMUNITY SAFETY
As we see the impact that increased crime is having in neighboring communities, Sonya is working hard to make sure we have a better outcome here in Clackamas County. She is working to expand our mobile crisis and homeless services, so people experiencing mental health or housing issues can get support from trained social workers, not police officers, which frees up police to do more urgent and necessary work to keep our community safe. She’s a strong advocate, alongside our community, promoting improvements to public safety that includes investments in training, support and swift accountability when necessary.
Sonya helped facilitate Go Teams of mental health professionals who would meet people where they were during a crisis—and the program was so successful and it’s being used by the Oregon Health Authority as a disaster-response model for the entire state and won a national award.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
During her time as a Clackamas County Commissioner, Sonya has met with constituents in evacuation centers to escape historic wildfires, ice storms, and heat domes, and knows the importance of making sure we’re prepared for whatever emergency comes next. Sonya helped the county create Go Teams of mental health professionals who would meet people where they were during a crisis—and the program was so successful that it’s being used by the Oregon Health Authority as a disaster-response model for the entire state and won a national award.