Working families continue to fall behind despite doing everything they can to stay afloat in our current economy. Silvia will work to lower everyday costs where possible. This includes policy to strengthen wages, address childcare shortfalls including subsidies for middle-class families, investment in public transportation, and support for affordable, accessible healthcare.  Silvia supports working class policies that ensure our economy works for the people who power it and not just those at the top.

Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Housing is critical to creating neighborhoods that can truly thrive. Silvia will prioritize housing initiatives that support first-time home buyers, strengthen protections for renters, prohibit corporations from buying up housing stock, and initiating mixed or creative solutions to housing where it makes the most sense. Silvia believes it’s imperative to address homelessness with practical and compassionate solutions.

Through Silvia’s work and experience on the Jordan River Commission, she’s seen the urgency for more funding to support infrastructure along our rivers and creeks that can get water back to the Great Salt Lake. She supports efforts to promote statewide water conservation including the creation of a Great Salt Lake water trust that nudges user cooperation to achieve water level goals, mitigating water diversion and ecological threats that exacerbate water depletion, improving over-all water quality, and statewide plans to make sure we can have a solid quality of life in the valley for the next 20 years and beyond.

Silvia’s other environmental priorities include funding mitigation and research for lakebed dust and finding sustainable ways to improve power infrastructure that prioritizes the environment and renewable systems. 

Keeping public school systems strong and intact gives every child opportunity no matter what neighborhood they live in. Silvia believes schools that serve all families anchor diverse and prosperous communities. She will defend policies that fully fund schools, support educators, and ensure a safe learning environment for all students. She also supports finding a way to provide universal free lunch for every child in every school, and funding after-school programming for working families.

As someone who exercised her own right to choose and served as a gestational carrier the same year that Roe v. Wade was overturned, Silvia believes personal medical decisions belong to individuals—not the government. She will defend reproductive freedom and ensure access to safe, legal, and dignified care that is inclusive to families of all kinds. Supporting families also means finding ways to expand affordable childcare options and pushing for stable, affordable, and transparent healthcare policies.

Everyone deserves to live openly, safely, and with dignity. Silvia will stand firmly against discrimination and work to protect the rights of all LGBTQ+ Utahns.

Immigrants strengthen our communities, our economy, and our state. Our immigration system should reflect fairness, dignity, and opportunity. Silvia rejects harmful and heavy-handed enforcement approaches that tear families apart. She supports protecting individuals in sensitive locations like schools, hospitals, courts, and libraries. Silvia will push to strengthen access to immigration resources like second-language support programs, reciprocity pathways for foreign working-professionals, and clear and achievable paths to citizenship for hardworking families who call this country home.

Arts and culture strengthen our communities, fuel our economy, and tell our shared story. As a former trained dancer, championing investments in art and culture is important to Silvia, and she will support expanding access to art programming in schools and public spaces and finding ways to help Utah’s arts and artists thrive.