why experience matters
Experience That Delivers
The Georgia General Assembly isn't Congress. We're a citizen legislature that meets between January and April each year. In that compressed time, knowing how to move legislation isn't optional; it's everything.
After 30 years practicing law, Esther knows how to build a case, negotiate across the aisle, and find common ground without compromising principles. She's developed relationships with colleagues on both sides of the aisle—relationships that translate into real wins for our district.
When constituents call her office with problems: a state agency that won't return calls, a licensing issue holding up their business, or a family in crisis. She knows who to call and how to cut through bureaucracy. That institutional knowledge takes years to build. Our district shouldn't have to wait while someone new learns the ropes.
Democratic Values. Proven Results.
Affordable Housing
Criminal Justice Reform
Affordable Housing
Our country is in a real affordability crisis. Esther
believes every family deserves the freedom to live, work, and raise their
kids in a safe, affordable community. Esther co-sponsored the Protect the Dream Act (HB305) in 2025, which would restrict large investment agencies from acquiring single family homes. This would work with municipal governments to incentivize affordable units through zoning and tax credits, and requiring developers who use state opportunity zones to provide affordable housing. While this legislation did not pass, Esther will work to create avenues where similar bills can be proposed in the future.
Healthcare
Criminal Justice Reform
Affordable Housing
Georgia has the second-highest maternal mortality rate in the nation and is the second-least insured state. Esther is fighting to expand Medicaid to cover 600,000 uninsured Georgians. She supported the Reproductive Freedom Act because healthcare decisions belong to women and their doctors, not politicians.
Criminal Justice Reform
Criminal Justice Reform
Criminal Justice Reform
As a former public defender, Esther has seen firsthand how broken our justice system is. In her efforts to advocate for justice she helped pass HB 123 to protect intellectually disabled individuals from the death penalty because executing them is not justice. She also authored HB 460, which passed the House 172-0, to ensure incarcerated people have private access to their attorneys. Constitutional rights must be upheld, even behind bars.
LGBTQ+ Equality
LGBTQ+ Equality
Criminal Justice Reform
Esther is pushing to add civil rights protections to Georgia's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and additional protections to Georgia's Fair Housing laws. Everyone deserves a safe place to live, regardless of who they are or whom they love.
Education
LGBTQ+ Equality
Environment
Esther is fighting to properly fund our schools, fairly compensate our educators, and hire support personnel our students need. She believes that classrooms should focus on teaching, not become political battlegrounds. When the majority party tried to push property tax relief that would harm local governments, and in turn harm our public schools, Esther fought back. Education is not an area that should be receiving less funds.
Environment
LGBTQ+ Equality
Environment
Georgia received D grades on infrastructure for transportation, wastewater, and dam maintenance. Esther signed onto the Okefenokee Protection Act and HB 71 to prevent mining at the Chattahoochee River. We need to build a greener future. With the influx in data centers being built in Georgia, Esther understands the urgency in which the environmental implications need to be addressed.
Representation Matters
The Only Jewish Voice in the Georgia House
When Esther was elected, she became the only Jewish member of the Georgia House of Representatives. That's not just a demographic fact; it's a responsibility she takes seriously every day.
Esther co-sponsored HB 30, landmark legislation defining antisemitism in Georgia law. That work made her a target. A neo-Nazi threatened my life because of my advocacy. In 2025, she testified against him, and he was convicted of federal hate crimes.
Esther could have stepped back. Instead, she stepped up. The House Speaker appointed her to serve on the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. Esther continues to advocate for our community—not despite the threats, but because of them.
Representation matters. Having a voice in the room who understands the concerns of minority communities—who has lived those concerns—makes legislation better and more inclusive.
TRUSTED BY OUR COMMUNITY
