Jennifer Slayton

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Jennifer Slayton

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November 8, 2022

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Jennifer Slayton ran for election to the Kern Community College District Governing Board to represent Trustee Area 2 in California. Slayton lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Slayton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Kern County, California (2022)

General election

General election for Kern Community College District Governing Board Trustee Area 2

Christina Scrivner defeated Jennifer Slayton in the general election for Kern Community College District Governing Board Trustee Area 2 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Christina Scrivner (Nonpartisan)	57.7	19,898
		Jennifer Slayton (Nonpartisan)	42.3	14,575

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 34,473
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2022

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Jennifer Slayton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Slayton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Jennifer Slayton, and I'm running to make sure East Kern, the Eastern Sierras, and our rural communities have real representation and get the resources that we deserve. I have the knowledge, experience, and commitment to our communities to make that happen. I’ve spent my entire career fighting for rural communities, the past fifteen while living in Ridgecrest and raising my family, and have a proven track record of being a strong voice for our communities. I’ve worked for the past ten years to expand KCCD services to rural areas. I’ve represented our communities on Kern County’s Local Childcare Planning Council. I’ve sat on advisory committees for Kern Health Systems and First 5 Kern. I’m proud to be known throughout Kern as an advocate for East Kern and our rural communities. I’ve also worked for the past seventeen years in education administration, and so understand the complex issues facing public education and funding. And I’ve served on the Bond Oversight Committee for KCCD for Measure G, where I gained invaluable insight into the colleges in the district. I’m not a politician, but I am a mom who has the knowledge, experience, and commitment to make sure East Kern, the Eastern Sierras, and our rural communities get a voice at the table and our fair share of services and resources.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Protecting and growing educational opportunities for our youth and all residents is my highest priority, especially ensuring that our local communities recover from the impact of the pandemic and government shutdowns.
• I will also work to ensure that KCCD is providing leadership in growing and developing all of our local economics, not only in their role supporting workforce development, but in their leadership of the Community Economic Resilience Fund planning efforts for the county.
• KCCD must be a leader and partner in increasing access for all, especially in rural and hard to reach areas. KCCD covers over 28,000 miles with huge geographic barriers, and their services must be meaningfully available to ALL residents of this vast area.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

My biggest personal and professional passion is ensuring that rural communities have a voice at the table and the services that their residents need, and deserve. I've worked in rural communities for over two decades, advocating for services and resources, and have lived in a rural community for the past fifteen years. Time and again I see our communities left out of conversations that impact us, or decisions made for our communities by those who don't live here and aren't raising their families here.

This is especially true in our local economic and community development. I've been involved in the Kern Community College District's Community Economic Resilience Fund planning, and have been excited to see them beginning to lead a process that will meaningfully include all of our communities, including those here in East Kern that don't usually have a voice at these planning tables. One of the big reasons I'm running is to ensure that this continues, and that all of our communities see real, relevant investments as a result of this.

The other area where I'm seeing the impacts of our rural areas being left out, is in the pandemic recovery efforts. While college centers in the bigger cities are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, our local centers are struggling. We must fight to not get left out of this recovery, and to ensure that our residents, and communities, are getting re-connected to the essential education and training services our community colleges provide.

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