Hi, I’m Hunter!

I am a proud Burnsville High School graduate (Go Blaze!) and was honored to serve our community in the Minnesota House from 2019-2021. I started my first campaign while going through chemotherapy for stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After becoming intimately familiar with a corporatized healthcare system often prioritizes profits over patients, I felt called to become a physician. I am now in my final year of medical school, and plan to practice family medicine in our community, providing affordable care to all — regardless of someone’s ability to pay

Why I’m running

I believe that collective action is the antidote to the fear and hopelessness of this current moment. Through our compassion for each other, I believe we can achieve a future where every child has a fully funded public education, where workers can organize to form a union and bargain for better wages and working conditions, where every Minnesotan can afford to have a roof over their head and access to universal healthcare, and where we can protect our environment from large corporate polluters. 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 ISD 191 students who depended on school lunches to stay fed during the COVID-19 pandemic, knocked doors over the last 12+ years for local candidates who we believed in, walked the picket line with our fellow workers, made pottery to raise money for BrainPower in a Backpack, or organized together to preserve lifesaving opioid addiction funding for Burnsville and all 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.

continued service to our community

Even after leaving the Minnesota State House in 2021 to pursue medical school, I have remained committed to serving Burnsville.

  • Working with Rep. Jess Hanson, Rep. Liz Reyer, and Sen. Alice Mann to impose a moratorium on private equity firms from owning healthcare services like hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes and enacting greater oversight of corporate healthcare transactions

  • Collaborated with Rep. Kaela Berg to advance unemployment insurance access for union workers forced to go on strike and protecting workers from wage theft of shift differentials not covered by the FLSA

  • Continued advocacy to ban the discriminatory practice of sub minimum wage in Minnesota and ensure people with disabilities are paid fairly for their work

  • Active involvement in anti-monopoly advocacy and fighting to significantly reduce the burden of unjust prior authorization denials for healthcare services

  • Helped fundraiser for causes ranging from protecting reproductive freedom to hunger relief for students in our community to raising money for union members experiencing financial hardship

  • Created the Cantrell Family Scholarship to support graduating Burnsville High School seniors as they begin their post-secondary careers

Board memberships:

  • Minnesota Medical Association Board of Trustees

  • Foundation One91 Board of Directors

  • Dakota Child and Family Clinic Board of Directors (former)