So many people across St. Paul feel like they don’t really have a voice, as though the city’s decisions are being made without them. My top priority is to help create spaces of meaningful engagement for our citizens, spaces where our residents can speak and be heard. This is vital to the political legitimacy of our city, and to our ability to find effective and reasonable and effective solutions to our problems. If we don’t find a way to do this, we will continue to see patterns of low voter turnout in our marginalized communities, and the migration away from the city from those who feel ignored.