We need to build an even better Vermont that works for all of us. Every Vermonter should have the opportunity to earn a livable wage, receive high-quality affordable healthcare, get a great education and retire with security.
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Let's Grow Kids VT
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Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund
The Sierra Club and
Everytown for Gun Safety
On the Issues
Children & Families
Research shows that every dollar invested in birth to five year old yields a three dollar return. In my first term, I was proud to vote to create a new Vermont Child Tax Credit.
There’s a severe shortage of high quality childcare in Vermont and yet early childhood professionals are underpaid and undervalued. Child care is essential to our state and these shortcomings impact working families like mine as well as our entire state economy. I am committed to creating an affordable, accessible, high-quality child care system that serves all Vermonters.
Economy
In my first term I supported historic investments in workforce, housing, and broadband - aiming to strengthen and boost Vermont's economy for all citizens but much work remains to grow our economy. I support tax policy that reward work, not wealth.
Education
As a high school teacher and School Board member, I am passionate about supporting our public schools. I believe that public education is an important tool in creating a more just and equitable society, and I will continue to be a tireless advocate for our most vulnerable students. As a member of the House Education Committee, I led efforts to ensure that universal meals in schools would continue to be available to all children.
I know all too well how difficult it is for graduating high school seniors to access and afford post-secondary education and training. We need to do more to retain our graduates and help them reach their full potential
Climate Change
I will continue to support progress on Vermont Climate Action Plan. We must continue to make our communities more resilient to climate change while also preparing for a more energy efficient future.
Common Sense Gun Laws
I am passionate about protecting our communities from unnecessary and painful gun violence. We have made important progress in Vermont but more work to remains. The leading cause of gun violence in Vermont is suicide and I am committed to policies that will help keep guns out of hands of Vermonters in crisis while we also invest in mental health systems.
Reproductive Liberty
I believe that reproductive health care decisions are deeply personal and should be made between a patient and their health care provider. If passed, Vermont will be the first state in the country to explicitly protect reproductive liberty in its constitution. I was honored and to vote in favor of Proposal 5 (now Article 22) to amend our state constitution.
I am honored to represent Williston and I strive to be accessible and responsive.
Please email me at ebrady@leg.state.vt.us with your questions, concerns or ideas anytime.
I am excited to announce that I am running for re-election for State Representative, Chittenden-2! I have served for two terms now and am currently the Vice Chair of the House Education Committee.
For the past four years, I have been honored to represent Williston as our state confronts complex challenges in our society and economy. I have sought to collaborate and build relationships with legislators and stakeholders with a wide variety of perspectives. We have made important progress on public safety and historic investments in housing, childcare and climate resiliency. I am especially proud of our work to support children and families, including a robust childcare bill and universal meals in schools, which I took a leadership role in getting passed. Universal meals in schools remove stigma for low-income students but ultimately support all families. Students come to school hungry for many reasons and food is not just nutrition, it is also about community, identity, and belonging.
The past session was particularly challenging given the “perfect storm” of factors that led to large increases in education spending, projected property tax increases and the instability the budget season created in schools and communities.
Despite the challenges, I am optimistic about the work ahead. One of the most pronounced lessons I’ve learned as a public school teacher of 18 years is the cumulative effect of inequitable opportunities and experiences on young people and their families. I know schools alone cannot fix everything, but I firmly believe they are the most important institutions we have to close opportunity gaps and they are fundamental to our democracy. We are at an inflection point in education for a variety of complex reasons. I am working everyday in Montpelier to transform our education system (which is really just a complex funding formula currently) in Vermont into a right-sized, strong public education system that supports all students and uses our precious statewide resources sustainably and efficiently. I am deeply committed to this work and bending the cost curve. Our system is over 200 years in the making so coherent change will take time.
I am a high school teacher of 18 years now and live in Williston with my husband and two sons. While it is challenging to raise a family, teach and serve in the Legislature, I believe it’s important that we have voices from working families in Montpelier.
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