Vote Elaine Walters for House of Delegates District 68!
Learn more about Elaine and her campaign
Who is Elaine?
Virginia Values
- Elaine Walters is a lifelong resident of Essex county, the natural resources in this area have inspired a love of nature and the environment, which has been the basis of her career thus far. She obtained an associate’s degree from Rappahannock Community College and completed a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology and Sustainability Leadership from Old Dominion University. At these institutions, she learned about the ecological balance between land and water that characterizes our area. There are many unique challenges we will face as the climate changes and the sea rises, and Elaine learned about these challenges from the people who understand them best: farmers and watermen.
Innovative Global Ideas
- After graduating in 2023, Elaine has been traveling all over the world to help save our environment, specializing in protecting nesting loggerhead sea turtles and ensuring their hatchlings have a safe route to the ocean. Her most notable travels have been to the Mojave Desert, where she observed efforts to integrate solar power effectively into urban and rural landscapes, and to the African island nation of Cape Verde, where she experienced and helped build important bonds between ecological restoration and social systems. These bonds helped uplift the community, create better economic opportunities, and establish higher levels of equality. These experiences highlighted the need for innovative community-based solutions within in her home district. This insight, and the conviction that choice and equality are vitally important to the democratic system, has led to the beginning of her campaign to run for House of Delegates in Virginia’s 68th District.
A Bright Future for HD 68
Elaine’s Vision
There is so much bad news in the world right now, and with new policies at the national level this is bound to get worse. District 68 has many challenges which will only be compounded by these policies. We deserve delegates who will stand as a buffer to what is happening in Washington. We face stark economic challenges, affordable housing is nearly impossible to find, and now we find our Medicare & Medicaid at risk along with our social security. A future with this much uncertainty and strife is not really a future. As an environmentalist, Elaine has dedicated herself to creating better futures. She has studied how climate change and sea level rise will impact our communities by changing the landscape, our agricultural practices, and even the ability to rely on our waterways for food, such as oysters and crabs. Often, rural areas become the playing field on which outside agents place attempts at sustainability. For the sake of our farmers, economy, and way of life, it is vitally important that we control the specifics of these expansions and focus on innovative and integrated solutions that do the most good for everyone. District 68 possess an ecological makeup that is beautiful and wholly unique in the world. The fields, forests and rivers are vitally important to how many of us live. The future is in our hands now and we owe those who come after us a better world on every level. Our educators do so much for our communities and it is important that they are provided with the resources with which to care for the next generation. Students deserve equal opportunities and access to knowledge and experience. Particularly through reliable access to internet in the form of rural broadband and better school funding will provide them a strong foundation on which to build their lives. Our economy needs to be fundamentally fairer and more equitable, favoring working people and individuals rather than large companies. This will ensure people of every generation can live better. There needs to be more opportunity for meaningful, sustainable, employment offering a livable wage. Similarly, the many small businesses of this district deserve opportunity for growth and development, rather than just surviving in the shadow of corporations who take money out of this community rather than back into it. The 68th district contains some of the most hardworking, intelligent, and kind people and they deserve a future as bright as they are.