Steffanie Fain brings over 15 years of legal experience to the table, giving her a strong understanding of the real-world challenges local businesses face every day. As a civil litigation, business, and employment attorney, she knows how red tape and permitting delays can slow growth—and she's committed to cutting through those barriers to help businesses, especially small ones, succeed.

Steffanie is a proven advocate for building a talented local workforce. Whether it's expanding apprenticeship opportunities, ensuring workplace safety standards or strengthening ties with local trade schools and community colleges, she is focused on preparing the next generation of workers to thrive—and helping our region stay competitive and innovative.

Public safety is a top concern for Eastside residents, and we believe Steffanie’s approach is both thoughtful and balanced. She supports strong investment in law enforcement, while also pushing for crisis response teams, addiction treatment, and youth programs that address root causes and support healthier communities.

On housing, Steffanie supports zoning reforms, streamlined permitting, and tools that truly encourage new housing across all income levels. Her approach is practical: create more housing, maintain tenant stability, and remove the roadblocks that hold up much-needed development.

Understanding that transportation and housing go hand-in-hand, Steffanie is focused on improving transit reliability, enhancing safety, and expanding flexible options like on-demand service—key pieces in creating a more connected and less congested region.

Steffanie is also serious about fiscal responsibility. She supports performance-based budgeting and wants to see real results before asking taxpayers for more. That means tracking outcomes, prioritizing what works, and scaling back what doesn’t. And she believes residents should be able to see exactly how their tax dollars are being used—because trust starts with transparency.