ABout Andi 

It's been an honor to represent District 3, Gustavus, Haines, Klukwan, north Juneau and Skagway, these past four years, (and the Juneau Valley the four years before that) in the House of Representatives. I have dedicated the last 23 years to strengthening my community and state through public service. I am deeply committed to continuing that work because Alaskans deserve a protected Permanent Fund, a sustainable dividend, a strong economy, excellent education, reliable transportation, and a fiscal plan. District 3 deserves a problem solver who truly listens and has proven success working across the aisle.

As a resident of beautiful Southeast for 40 years, I understand the vital need for reliable ferries. As a 15-year local school board member, I’ve seen up close what families, teachers, school communities and public choice options need to succeed. As a former non-partisan citizen grassroots advocate for great schools across Alaska, I am familiar with other educational communities. As a Mom to three wonderful adults (plus two sons-in-law), and grandmother to four, I want all families to thrive in safe, healthy, affordable communities. As a wife to a former small engineering business owner, Mike, I understand a strong stable economy is essential to helping Alaska grow. I also understand that public employees deserve a guaranteed retirement or Alaska will continue to struggle with worsening labor shortages in essential services, such as education and public safety.

In 2018, after years of testifying to the Legislature about improving education, I decided I wanted to be directly part of the decision-making process. With a lot of energetic volunteer help (and knocking on thousands of doors), I was elected.

I have served on thirteen legislative committees and sub-committees (focused mainly on education, transportation, and workforce development). I am experienced in working in a multi-partisan (Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Non-partisans) way to achieve significant accomplishments. I am proud of my measures this last legislative session that creates a teacher student loan repayment program, plus full funding of school energy costs starting in 2028, allows new state financing to build workforce housing, and invests more in the infant learning program. Past legislative accomplishments include, $5.2 million to support the Alaska Reads Act (so kids can read by the end of 3rd grade), expanded the Alaska Performance Scholarship to help more youth afford and access technical school or college as a pipeline to fill our workforce jobs, broadened revitalization of Native languages through changes to the Council for Alaska Native Languages, and increased harbor safety. I am also pleased to have worked across the aisle to support a dividend of $1,000 + $250 in energy relief for a total of $1,250 for Alaskans in October 2026. We passed a larger capital budget and saved the 2026 construction season. After the Governor vetoed the state transportation match, the Legislature restored $70 million to unlock about $600 million in federal dollars.

I also strongly supported funding of $153 million for this upcoming year to tackle long overdue school and university maintenance, on top of the 40 million last year. We passed $115 million more for education this year, plus $29 million for energy costs for schools, on top of the permanent $700-per-student increase we passed in 2025 over the Governor’s veto. The House passed my bill to stabilize school communities by taking an average of the past three years student count as their baseline budget for the school year, something other states do. This legislation is a much needed solution to fix our broken education funding process timeline. The bill did not have time to make it through the Senate. Indeed, there is still much work to do.  

During my eight years, I have worked for a better Alaska by:

• Protecting the Permanent Fund by staying within the so-called “5 percent of market value draw” (which is the safe amount of earnings we can spend without hurting the fund’s growth) voting to put billions into protected Permanent Fund savings and the fund has grown by over $25 billion;

• Blocking attempts to eliminate ferries and while increasing investment in maintenance and operations, improving regular service (by focusing on hiring and training staff ), getting new mainliners designed and built, and establishing the independent Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board to work toward a more reliable, sustainable, and affordable Marine Highway System.

• Strengthening public safety by passing a landmark law this session with more than a dozen reforms, including raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 and criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Last year we updated sexual assault laws, tightening sex offenders’ registration requirements, toughening penalties for distributors of fentanyl and methamphetamines, requiring schools to have Naloxone (the opioid reversal drug) on site, doubling to four the number of investigators dedicated to cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, requiring cultural training for Troopers, and criminalizing inducement into sex trafficking;

• Boosting the fishing Industry by cutting interest rates in half (from 10.5% to 5.25%) and increasing maximum amounts to $400,000 for the next three years on loans through the Commercial Fishing Revolving Loan Fund.

• Enhancing energy investments for more affordable, renewable, infrastructure upgrades and operations;

• Stopping significant cuts to and improving valued services and programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), support for food banks, child care assistance, senior benefits (renewed for ten years), adult and youth public assistance, housing assistance through Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC), paid family care giving for a loved one with a disability through Medicaid, and telehealth access;

• Fighting for kids by negotiating at least temporary funding to the K- 12 Base Student Allocation which benefits all public school choice options by the largest ever overall increase of $175 million dollars;

• Funding some of the highest dividends ever while contributing to savings to continue to grow the Permanent Fund; and

• Helping families with increased wages for home-based personal care attendants for seniors and people with development disabilities, investments in senior day services, and tax credit incentives for business investments in childcare.

Get involved

Connect with Andi at andistoryforhouse@gmail.com or at (907) 723-4198.

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