Shreeta Waldon
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Shreeta Waldon (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives to represent District 44. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 21, 2024.
Waldon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Shreeta Waldon was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree from Clark Atlanta University in 2001 and a graduate degree from Argosy University in 2007. Her career experience includes working as an executive director, as a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, in social services, and in theater. She has served on the board of directors for Feed Louisville and on the board of directors for the National Black Harm Reduction Coalition.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Kentucky House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 44
Incumbent Beverly Chester-Burton won election in the general election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 44 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Beverly Chester-Burton (D) | 100.0 | 12,888 |
| Total votes: 12,888 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 44
Incumbent Beverly Chester-Burton defeated Shreeta Waldon and Daniel Cockrell in the Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 44 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Beverly Chester-Burton | 50.7 | 1,646 |
 | Shreeta Waldon | 28.3 | 918 | |
 | Daniel Cockrell | 21.1 | 684 | |
| Total votes: 3,248 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Shreeta Waldon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Waldon's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Shreeta is an experienced Executive Director, skilled in management, training, coaching, facilitation, and leadership. With clinical, leadership, and organizational development experience spanning over 16 years, Shreeta has found her niche and success, through the lens of harm reduction, in advocating for needed policy changes. Shreeta is noted as a leading expert in the field of substance use and prevention, with hope, love, empathy, as well as accountability, responsibility, and humility guiding the way to building safe and healthy communities.
- I will introduce legislation that focus on the needs of the community. In order to foster relationships of trust, my priority is to focus on those she represents.
- I will involve my constituents in the legislative process. I believe in collaboration and collective responsibility when addressing the needs of the community.
- I believe in people over policy; policies that continue to create barriers to communities ability to thrive are ineffective and not policies centered around the people's needs.
The areas of public policy I am personally passionate about are community safety, equitable healthcare, and affordable and sustainable housing. My goal is to not just focus on one or two hot topics, trending the political landscape. I am driven to listen to my constituents, hear the concerns of the community, review the legislation that continue to perpetuate the problems, and rebuild the legislation needed to ensure effective changes that lead to each individual ability to thrive. Policies that are deemed to be barriers to improving the health and safety of our communities, will be dismantled, re-imagined, and re-built through the critical analysis of one defining question; does this bill reduce or increase the harms to the communities I represent?
Congressman John Lewis has an amazing quote I live by: "When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something." Before ever seeing this quote, I have been living my life in this way. Growing up in a household of parents in law enforcement, telling the truth, regardless of the persons position of power or not, was embedded in me and my siblings. John Lewis embodied this during his lifetime. I want to continue to speak truth to power and ensure the voices of marginalized communities are elevated. Watching his career has motivated me to stand on what's right, no matter what.
Elected officials are representatives of the people. These positions are highly influential and are considered servants to the public. I believe in any role of leadership and power, integrity, empathy, and a sense of humility should be at the foundation. With my strong moral principles rooted in honesty and putting others first, I know I can always intentionally show up in any space in full transparency and authenticity. To show love and compassion in a position of power allows the community to see me as a real human being who is connected. These characteristics are my guides to practicing my principles of unity, collective work and responsibility, self-determination, cooperative economics, faith, and purpose, daily.
I love music. When preparing to speak or facilitate workshops, I tend to listen to gospel songs. The fill me with inspiration and allow me time to process my thoughts. Most recently, I listened to "Unstoppable" by Koryn Hawthorne and it is still stuck in my head. The lyrics that I have on repeat in my mind, "I do believe I'm something special, can't take that from me. You can say what you want, and I go harder, stronger, be who I'm supposed to be. Cause I'm unstoppable." The entire song is a perfect description of my faith, how serious and intentional I am, and how I will never give up.
The biggest struggle in my life has been watching the harms inflicted on marginalized groups continue to occur year after year despite elected officials vocalizing during their campaign, their plans to address them. It absolutely breaks my heart to see inadequate policies pass through for approval that criminalize poverty and substance use disorder. To witness increased fatality rates from overdoses, comorbidities, suicide and disparities in any other social determinant of health, in marginalized communities, is trauma inducing. I struggle to accept these statistics as a reality that will never change. I struggle with being ok with houseless communities continuing to grow. I struggle with elected officials making promises and not following through. My struggle, is rooted in the communities most negatively impacted, not being truly liberated and free in the land we call "Free". So, until our people, the taxpayers of this land, the people who put elected officials in office through their vote are liberated, I will continue to fight and speak up against these harmful policies and practices. Regardless of where I land in the political landscape; I will continue to fight for true liberation and human rights.
I believe the most ideal relationship between governors and state legislators are intentional collaborating partnerships. Collaboration between the governor and state legislators allows the focus of creating policies that prioritize humanity and can and will lead to more effective governance.
I believe the most effective legislators are those with lived experience of the role in which they intend to fill. My experience is rooted in the work of social justice, health and financial equity, and affordable and sustainable housing. I have experience working under the current policies and have first-hand knowledge of how ineffective they are and have been. Not only am I an example of an individual who has the knowledge of these antiquated policies, I am also a member of many marginalized communities who continue to suffer negative outcomes as a direct result of policies perpetuating the barriers to communities accessing the much-needed resources. With my experience, I am more prepared to bring effective solutions to the table versus an individual who only has knowledge of the government processes but nothing relational. It is not enough to say you have knowledge gained from education and work. We need to follow the definition of the legislator roles; individuals who represent the communities they serve.
I believe compromising can be a critical aspect of effective policymaking, but it is essential to avoid it when it poses a potential risk of harm to the well-being of the communities we serve.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 8, 2024
Current members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:David Osborne
Minority Leader:Pamela Stevenson
Representatives
District 1
Steven Rudy (R)
District 2
District 3
Randy Bridges (R)
District 4
D. Wade Williams (R)
District 5
Mary Imes (R)
District 6
Chris Freeland (R)
District 7
Suzanne Miles (R)
District 8
Walker Thomas (R)
District 9
Myron Dossett (R)
District 10
Josh Calloway (R)
District 11
J.T. Payne (R)
District 12
Jim Gooch (R)
District 13
D.J. Johnson (R)
District 14
Scott Lewis (R)
District 15
Rebecca Raymer (R)
District 16
Jason Petrie (R)
District 17
Robert Duvall (R)
District 18
Samara Heavrin (R)
District 19
Michael Meredith (R)
District 20
Kevin Jackson (R)
District 21
Amy Neighbors (R)
District 22
Shawn McPherson (R)
District 23
Steve Riley (R)
District 24
Ryan Bivens (R)
District 25
Steve Bratcher (R)
District 26
Peyton Griffee (R)
District 27
Nancy Tate (R)
District 28
Jared Bauman (R)
District 29
Chris Lewis (R)
District 30
Daniel Grossberg (D)
District 31
District 32
Tina Bojanowski (D)
District 33
Jason Nemes (R)
District 34
Sarah Stalker (D)
District 35
Lisa Willner (D)
District 36
John Hodgson (R)
District 37
Emily Callaway (R)
District 38
Rachel Roarx (D)
District 39
Matt Lockett (R)
District 40
Nima Kulkarni (D)
District 41
Mary Marzian (D)
District 42
Joshua Watkins (D)
District 43
Pamela Stevenson (D)
District 44
District 45
Adam Moore (D)
District 46
Alan Gentry (D)
District 47
Felicia Rabourn (R)
District 48
Ken Fleming (R)
District 49
Thomas Huff (R)
District 50
Candy Massaroni (R)
District 51
Michael Pollock (R)
District 52
Ken Upchurch (R)
District 53
James Tipton (R)
District 54
Daniel Elliott (R)
District 55
Kim King (R)
District 56
Daniel Fister (R)
District 57
Erika Hancock (D)
District 58
Jennifer Decker (R)
District 59
David Osborne (R)
District 60
Marianne Proctor (R)
District 61
Savannah Maddox (R)
District 62
Tony Hampton (R)
District 63
Kimberly Banta (R)
District 64
Kimberly Moser (R)
District 65
Stephanie Dietz (R)
District 66
T.J. Roberts (R)
District 67
Matthew Lehman (D)
District 68
Mike Clines (R)
District 69
Steven Doan (R)
District 70
William Lawrence (R)
District 71
Josh Bray (R)
District 72
Matthew Koch (R)
District 73
Ryan Dotson (R)
District 74
David Hale (R)
District 75
Lindsey Burke (D)
District 76
Anne Donworth (D)
District 77
George Brown (D)
District 78
Mark Hart (R)
District 79
Chad Aull (D)
District 80
David Meade (R)
District 81
District 82
Nick Wilson (R)
District 83
Joshua Branscum (R)
District 84
Chris Fugate (R)
District 85
Shane Baker (R)
District 86
Tom Smith (R)
District 87
Adam Bowling (R)
District 88
Vanessa Grossl (R)
District 89
Timmy Truett (R)
District 90
Derek Lewis (R)
District 91
Billy Wesley (R)
District 92
John Blanton (R)
District 93
Adrielle Camuel (D)
District 94
Mitchum Whitaker (R)
District 95
Ashley Laferty (D)
District 96
Patrick Flannery (R)
District 97
Bobby McCool (R)
District 98
Aaron Thompson (R)
District 99
Richard White (R)
District 100
Scott Sharp (R)
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