A Win For Our Future

Yesterday, I won my election to the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education.

Today, I rested. I took two naps. I felt held in love—from text messages and calls to quiet prayers and loud cheers. It felt like the whole city exhaled with me. After months of organizing, walking blocks in the cold, speaking truth in every room I entered, and holding tight to a vision that began as a whisper in my spirit… we did it.

We did it.

This wasn’t just a campaign. It was a movement for neighborhood schools, for literacy, for transparency, for equity that is real and rooted—not just promised on paper. It was a stand for students like my son, who deserve schools that love them back. It was for families displaced by closures, for communities that have been told to wait their turn. This time, our turn came.

I thought about every moment that led to this one: being a teen mom, chasing my degree while holding my son on my hip, moving to Kansas City with hope and hustle, working cases where the stakes were life or death, and never losing sight of the children who watch us and inherit the systems we build—or fail to change.

This win is for every young person who ever felt counted out. For every parent who’s had to fight for a seat at the table. For every neighbor who dreams of schools as sanctuaries, not pipelines. I carry you with me.

To those who believed in me, who knocked doors, who shared your stories, who told your friends, who showed up to the polls—thank you. I will not take this responsibility lightly.

And to the version of myself who once wondered if her voice mattered—look what happens when you speak anyway.

Foley for Our Future was never just a slogan. It’s a promise. And we’re just getting started.