Candidate Category: City

Cindy was born in Bay City, Michigan. She spent 43 years teaching writing and literature. Now retired, she is running

Carol Smith is a nurse educator in Yuma who has been active in the community her entire life. She has

Tamara Floyd, born in Pomona California, moved to Phoenix Arizona in 1993, where she presently resides in the city of Goodyear for the past 20+ years.

Joyce Jones-Ivey is a retired nurse who proudly served patients for 42 years. She was elected to the Oro Valley Town Council in 2018 to keep the town community oriented, fiscally sound, and environmentally and financially sustainable.

Phoenix native Laura Pastor is a fifth-generation Arizonan. Her grandparents and great-grandparents worked in Eastern Arizona’s mining communities, and both her parents began their careers as classroom teachers.

Alexis is the Mayor of the City of El Mirage where she was born and raised. As a proud fourth-generation El Mirage resident, Alexis is passionate about her community.

A Mesa native with British family roots that go back to Falcon Field during World War II, Duff is very active in the Mesa community. She spent six years on the Board of Directors of the i.d.e.a. Museum.

City Councilmember Karen Watts is a Yuma native whose family presence in the Yuma  community dates to the 1800’s. She had the privilege to raise a family of her own here while  having the opportunity to play an active role in serving her community.

An Arizona native, Becky won her first term on the Flagstaff City Council in 2020, earning the role of Vice Mayor as the top vote recipient. Becky currently directs northern Arizona organizing efforts for the statewide Stop Dark Money campaign.

Councilwoman Whitehead and her family came to Scottsdale in 1996 from San Diego for ‘just six months’, fell in love with everything Arizona and never went back.

Ginny chose Fountain Hills as her hometown in 1983. Born and raised in NY, she followed her parents, who had fallen in love with this desert community in the seventies.