About Hunter

I am a proud Burnsville High School graduate (Go Blaze!) and was honored to serve Savage and Northwest Burnsville in the Minnesota House after knocking thousands of doors and building a working class, grassroots campaign with your help in 2018. I started my first campaign while going through chemotherapy for stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which I am now 8 years in remission. After seeing the suffering caused by our corporatized healthcare system that far too often treats people like a financial bottom line rather than human beings, I felt called to pursue becoming a physician to help all people prosper directly. I am now in my third year of medical school, after which, I intend on practicing family medicine in our community and providing affordable care to all — regardless of someone’s ability to pay.

As the federal government threatens devastating cuts to medicaid while our community members are increasingly being burdened by outrageous premium increases, we have a responsibility to make sure lifesaving support services for Minnesotans living with disabilities, mental illness, chemical dependency, and all who rely on programs like medicaid are protected. Times are hard for working class folks, I know as a former SEIU home healthcare worker and former labor contract negotiator that when working people come together: We win. In a moral society, I don't think anyone's survival or good health should depend on luck and no one should have to live in fear of their own government; that is why I felt the call to public service during this time when so many are worrying for their very survival.

Why I’m running

I believe that together we can overcome the fear and hopelessness of this current moment caused by ICE’s attack on our immigrant and refugee community members and collectively will into existence a brighter tomorrow. Through our compassion for each other, I believe we can achieve a future where every child has a fully funded public education, workers can organize to form a union and bargain for stronger wages and benefits for all of us, every Minnesotan can have an affordable roof over their head and access to universal healthcare, and we can protect our environment from large corporate polluters who threaten the health of our state. We are also seeing the very constitutional rights that have made the American dream possible now erode under the weight of corporate monopolies and billionaires that want to keep us fighting each other while they price gouge us on everything form our homes to our groceries to our prescription drugs. I believe that the dignified future where our basic human needs are met is worth fighting for, and now is the time that we need to come together to make it a reality.

For me, public service and caring for others is a way of life. Whether we delivered food together to prevent ISD 191 students from going hungry during the COVID-19 pandemic, knocked doors in the rain over the last 12+ years for local candidates who we believed in, made pottery together to raise money for BrainPower in a Backpack, walked the picket line with our fellow workers, or organized together to preserve lifesaving opioid addiction funding for Burnsville and the whole state of Minnesota — we’ve been in the fight together for a better future for our community for a long time, and I would be honored to work alongside you once more as your next state representative for House District 55B.