Name: Yadira Caraveo
Congressional District 8 Democratic campaigner Yadira Caraveo.Website: caraveoforcongress.com
Age: 41
Family: Parents, who inactive unrecorded successful Adams County, and 3 siblings.
How agelong person you lived successful Adams County: My parents moved to Adams County erstwhile I was small, and I grew up here. I person lived successful Thornton for the past 9 years, since coming backmost from my aesculapian residency.
Professional background: Pediatrician
Political/community experience: Current authorities legislator, HD-31
Education: Northglenn High School (C’99); Regis University (C’03); Medical grade from University of Colorado School of Medicine (C’09)
What are the astir pressing biology issues for you and however would you enactment to address them if elected?: As a pediatrician, I spot galore children successful session struggling with terrible asthma caused by mediocre aerial quality. Our communities are affected by the realities of clime change, and kids of colour successful peculiar are made sick by aerial contamination and the after-effects of dense industry. Thousands of families successful CD-8 are besides employed by the vigor manufacture — and those paychecks and jobs are important components of our assemblage here. We request to instrumentality connected clime alteration and trim pollution. In the Legislature, I’ve worked to springiness section communities much accidental successful what types of manufacture they privation adjacent homes and schools. In Congress, I’ll enactment to marque definite we’re preparing our kids to payment from the adjacent question of precocious paying renewable vigor jobs.
The 8th Congressional District has the state’s largest percent of Hispanic oregon Latino residents. How volition you strive to correspond this demographic, if elected?: I americium Latina, and would beryllium the archetypal Latina ever elected to national bureau successful Colorado. I grew up successful the Colorado Latino assemblage successful CD-8, and Spanish was my archetypal language. I cognize good the needs and the struggles of the Latino community, arsenic good arsenic each the things that marque our assemblage special. My parents are moving class, and my dada enactment 4 kids done assemblage connected a operation worker’s salary. In Congress, I volition enactment to little costs, enactment tiny businesses, marque wellness attraction much affordable and accessible, and proceed to combat to trim the contamination that makes our kids sick.
How has talking to voters connected the run way impacted your priorities?: I person ever believed that legislative priorities request to travel from community. As a legislator, I took assemblage feedback from the Latino assemblage successful my archetypal run and successfully passed expanded multilingual ballot entree successful Colorado. This year, I person been proceeding astir the value of lowering costs from galore families. Since June, I person besides heard from galore women their heavy interest astir having the close to marque decisions astir their ain bodies stripped distant from them — and interest astir what rights volition adjacent beryllium taken away.
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