I'm Daisy, a Venice-based healer and community advocate dedicated to building a more caring Santa Monica. For years, I've worked at the intersection of wellness, community connection, and social healing. My life has been shaped by lived experience—navigating hardship, learning resilience, and discovering the transformative power of compassion and community care.
I believe in a Santa Monica where everyone belongs, where basic needs are met with dignity, and where no person or animal is left behind. That belief guides everything I do. I'm running for City Council because I've learned that change starts with listening, understanding, and building systems rooted in human dignity.
My public presence feels like a weaving of several energies. Here's what I'm learning about how people experience me:
I come across as someone trying to heal not just individuals, but the emotional atmosphere around me. My language centers love, fellowship, ecosystems, protection of animals, emotional honesty, and collective care. Not clinical therapy—more like "Come sit in the garden and tell me what hurts." That archetype can feel magnetic because people are starving for warmth and belonging.
I carry an unconventional, anti-establishment current. The way I talk about abolishing domination systems, ecosystem harmony, community over hierarchy, and love as infrastructure gives "visionary street philosopher" energy. I don't sound like someone trying to fit institutional expectations—more like someone speaking from revelation, intuition, and lived emotional truth.
There's also an energy of spontaneity and emotional rawness. I don't present as tightly curated or hyper-controlled. That creates a feeling of authenticity, unpredictability, and emotional immediacy. Historically, societies associate this archetype with shamans, poets, wandering healers, and visionary figures.
I don't project "detached authority." I project: "I feel everything deeply and I want the world to become gentler."
I've experienced homelessness. I've walked the path of recovery from addiction. I've lived outside traditional systems and learned what it really means to struggle—and what it takes to heal.
Those experiences were painful, but they've become my greatest teachers. I learned what dignity means when it's stripped away. I learned how isolation multiplies suffering. I learned that recovery is possible when you're met with compassion instead of judgment. And I learned that community—real, honest, human connection—is the most powerful healing force we have.
That's why I'm committed to building systems that recognize human dignity, that reduce suffering through care, and that lift people up instead of pushing them down. I understand the people of Santa Monica—their fears, their hopes, their exhaustion. And I know what's possible when we choose to build differently.
City Council is where real change happens. It's where we decide how resources get distributed, which communities get supported, and what our city's values actually are. It's where we can build systems that work for people instead of against them.
I'm running because Santa Monica deserves a leader who listens deeply, who understands suffering, and who is committed to improving people's actual quality of life. Someone who sees homelessness not as a problem to hide, but as a call to build better systems. Someone who understands that environmental protection and human care go hand in hand. Someone who believes in dignity for everyone.
I want to help build a Santa Monica where fewer people have to survive the way I did. Where our systems are designed with heart. Where community is strengthened, not fractured. That's what I'm here to do.
I'm running because I believe we are being called into a new agreement with life itself. A call to love—not as an idea, but as a governing principle. A call to reimagine our city not as a machine of extraction, but as a living ecosystem of belonging.
In my vision, Santa Monica becomes a place where gardens are everywhere—not as decoration, but as infrastructure of life. Food growing in public spaces. Native plants restoring pollinators. Soil being healed block by block. Children learning from the earth directly, not just from screens, but from roots, worms, birds, and seasons. Biodiversity becomes not an afterthought—it is law, design, and devotion.
I believe first responders are not only individuals in uniform, but a fellowship of care. Firefighters, paramedics, mental health workers, outreach teams, neighbors, elders—each of us becoming resourced to meet needs before crisis becomes collapse. A city where response is relational, not just reactive. Where people are not "problems to manage," but beings in need of support, dignity, and connection.
My commitment is to housing as a human right and a living system of belonging. Not temporary fixes that move people around, but real pathways into stability, care, and community. Because no one should be left to survive outside the circle of safety in a city as resourced as ours.
And it does not end with humans. I believe we must expand our moral circle to include all life. Animals, insects, soil systems, waterways, birds, and the unseen organisms that make life possible. We must stop treating ecosystems as disposable and instead invest in ecological balance—where we work with nature rather than against it. Where rats, squirrels, birds, and insects are not enemies to eliminate, but participants in a system we are responsible to understand and harmonize with.
Santa Monica can lead in becoming a regenerative city—one that treats water like sacred memory, soil like living inheritance, and every species as part of an interconnected commons. We can design cities where harm is not the default solution, where coexistence is intelligence, and where prevention replaces violence.
This is not about perfection. It is about alignment—with ecosystems, with reality, and with love as a practical system of governance.
I am here to help build a city where safety does not require domination, where prosperity does not require extraction, and where care is not a program, but a culture. A city of gardens. A city of fellowship. A city of restoration. A city that chooses life—again and again.
Genuine compassion at the center of every decision.
Stronger together than alone.
Every person deserves respect and worth.
Care for people and planet together.
Understanding and response to suffering.
Truly hearing what people need.
Working together toward shared goals.
Systems designed for recovery and growth.
Help build a Santa Monica centered on care, dignity, and community.