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Episode Seventeen: Candidate Chat with Nelly Burdette
In this episode, hosts Elizabeth Hammond and Sarah LaFontaine sit down with Nelly Burdette, a psychologist, working mom, and first-generation immigrant running for Rhode Island Senate District 17 (Lincoln, North Smithfield, and North Providence).
Nelly shares why two decades in mental healthcare pushed her to run for office — not as a career politician, but as a community member determined to fix broken systems from the inside. We dig into the affordability crisis hitting Rhode Island families, the silos stalling mental health progress, what it takes to rebuild trust between communities and…
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