It is Meet the Team Monday!  Today, we continue our blog series with an interview with our National Treasurer - Brooke Burns.

About Brooke:

Brooke Burns is the National Treasurer for Democrats Abroad France (DAF), and has been successfully managing DAF’s resources for the past two years. In addition to organizing national resources, Brooke maintains positive working relationships with all the DAF chapters. Her most recent project centered on digitalising the financial processes for members, events, and GOTV efforts.

Brooke had been an election volunteer in her home state of Washington since before she could vote. “My first political memories were voting at Challenger Elementary School with my mother and skipping school to volunteer as a poll judge for Obama's 2008 election at the last in-person voting year in Washington State before the implementation of electronic voting,” Brooke explained.  

So when she moved to France to work in communications, she sought out local political volunteering opportunities and found DA France. 

“I was volunteering with my legislative district (WA-5!) while living abroad, and it became too much/overwhelming to manage. So, I googled local political volunteering opportunities and DA appeared, with enough time before the elections to submit a candidate statement.

I emailed Sheila (Malovany-Chevallier), I think, telling her that I wasn't sure that I had the experience to be the treasurer but I'd be happy to help whoever was elected. She wrote back, simply, 'if you want to run, run!' and so I did.”

Brooke’s fun facts include:

• She still votes in Washington.
• Her favorite political icons are Nicola Sturgeon and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• Her top 3* issue areas are healthcare (specifically reproductive rights and body autonomy), current human rights abuses at the border (primarily family separation, denial of aid to individuals crossing dangerous sections of the border), environmental justice, the failure to regulate firearms/weapons of mass murder, etc....More than 3, sorry!
• If she were President for a day, she would fire Mitch McConnell, immediately enact as much of the Green New Deal as possible, end family separation, regulate gun sales/ownership more seriously than a French driver's license, and legislate to the fullest extent of my ability the unassailable rights of women to choose what happens to their bodies. ERA for good measure. Wealth tax if I have time!