Party affiliation:
Green

Social media accounts
Garrold.green (website); Garrold for the House (Facebook page)

Occupation:
Retired nurse midwife

Education:
Masters of Science in Nursing

Community Organizations:
Board of Directors Farwell Project, Thorndike; Jackson Food Pantry volunteer, Jackson; former board member Belfast Co-op, Belfast; Former board member Waldo County Cooperative Extension, Waldo

Personal information (hobbies, etc.):
Currently knitting baby blankets for memorialblanket.org/ a project to cover the Mall in Washington, D.C. with blankets for the unhoused. I garden, preserve food and read historical novels.

Family status:
I live on a homestead with my adult son who has his own household on the land. My sisters both live in the area and my 90 year old parents still live in the house I grew up in.

Years in the Legislature:
None yet

Committee assignments (if elected):
Agriculture Conservation and Forestry; State and Local Government; Health and Human Services

Q&A

1) Define what “success” would look like if you are elected to serve your district.
At the end of my two-year term I would like the people of District 38 to say “she was always available to help us with our concerns, she listened to our opinions and she did the best job she could representing us in the Legislature.”

2) Characterize your view on public access to governmental business.
I worked on a bill amending the APA requiring public hearings for substantive rule changes.