I am running for U.S. Senate.
Lorita Daniels has spent her entire life in public service, including her time as a federal employee, serving the people in communities where she lived. For too long, improving communities and people’s lives have been the center of conversations but have often been sidelined when it comes to putting these conversations in the center of the decision-making process.
I’ve spent the last six years serving as your school board member and more recently the chair of the Spotsylvania County School Board, and I’ve seen firsthand the progress we can achieve when we take an “all hands on deck” approach to uplifting voices too often left out of the conversation — not tucked away and shelved until the next campaign season, but truly heard, valued, and included every day.
Before I became an elected official, I began my educational journey as a substitute teacher in rural Georgia, striving to ensure that every child — especially those who needed to see their own identity reflected in the classroom — knew they belonged and had a voice in their education.
Growing up, my mother worked most of her life and could not miss work because she needed the money to pay her bills. She got married at an early age and left my father after seven years of married because sometimes his drinking got the best of him. After she left the marriage, she lived paycheck-to-paycheck and relied on housing subsidies and federal programs such as the HeadStart and free and reduced lunch initiatives at our schools for support.
My mom persevered, and she has passed that same determination on to me, which has made me into the person I am today.
When I ran for school board in 2019, I did so to advocate for students and families — for the children whose parents couldn’t afford to miss a day of work because that might mean rent wouldn’t be paid, medication wouldn’t be bought, preventative medical care wouldn’t be a priority, or food wouldn’t make it to the table.
As a caring, supportive, and reasoned representative of the Salem District, I was committed to thinking outside of the box to be a true difference-maker for every child, regardless of their emotional, intellectual, physical, or social abilities. As the past chair of the board, I advocated for meaningful changes and progress throughout the school district to ensure that our students were achieving.
As a trusted and courageous leader, I will continue to use my strong voice on the behalf of the people in Virginia. I’ll show up to get the people’s work done.
Let’s Start Playing the Victory Game Here in Virginia!
