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Zoe Sullivan
Candidate, Wisconsin State Assembly District 76
Elections and appointments
Next election
August 11, 2026
Education
High school
Madison West High School
Bachelor's
Brown University, 2001
Personal
Profession
Community Development
Contact

Zoe Sullivan (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Wisconsin State Assembly to represent District 76. Sullivan declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on August 11, 2026.

Sullivan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Zoe Sullivan earned a high school diploma from Madison West High School and a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 2001. Sullivan's career experience includes working in community development.[1]

Elections

2026

See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on August 11, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary

Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 76

Zoe Sullivan (D) is running in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 76 on August 11, 2026.

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Campaign themes

2026

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Zoe Sullivan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sullivan's responses.

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I grew up between Madison and McFarland in a single-parent household, and I learned at a young age about stretching a dollar, conserving energy, and looking out for the people around me. I dropped out of college to do community organizing for nearly a decade before returning to complete my degree. I launched efforts to bring a credit union to New York City's most diverse neighborhood in 2004, and supported adult English Language Learners around their labor rights during that same time period. I returned to Madison in 2019 and joined the board of the Madison Area Community Land Trust, where I served during the first year of the pandemic. More recently, I worked for the Couillard Solar Foundation handling communications and fundraising, a position that helped me learn about solar and climate resilience projects around Wisconsin.
  • Wisconsin needs to reinvent the infrastructure people need: public education, public housing, healthcare and regional transit. Wisconsin has a history of innovating policy solutions to protect and care for its residents. The dismantling of a range of federal programs and agencies means those state systems have taken on even greater importance. So, let's use part of the state budget surplus to build permanently affordable public housing. Let's remove obstacles to creating regional transit systems, and let's stop siphoning taxpayer dollars from the public education system and find a way to shift away from property taxes as the primary funder of those schools.
  • As a swing state, Wisconsin voters understand how valuable their votes are. Let's improve our democratic system by adopting ranked-choice voting so that people can vote for the candidate that best represents them but also offer second and third choices. This would enable a greater diversity of candidates and ensure that those elected best correspond to Wisconsinites' preferences.
  • Wisconsin should establish a public bank that can act as a backstop for the state's financial system and support local institutions' lending capacity. Given the uncertainty at the Federal Reserve and the threat of a Wall Street bubble bursting, it makes sense for Wisconsin to create an institution that can bolster local lending capacity while also protecting the stability of state-based banks and credit unions. There are other public banks around the US, and the Bank of North Dakota is one nearby example.
Public education, climate resilience, water protection/conservation
Allen Ruff, Marc Rosenthal, Arden Rice, Peter Fiala, Mark Stover

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 4, 2026


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