Host Erika Washington interviews Washoe County Commission Chair and gubernatorial candidate Alexis Hill during Nevada’s midterm primary season. Hill shares her background as a mother and career public servant and explains why she decided to run for office. She highlights county efforts to address homelessness by shifting to a coordinated regional model focused on housing outcomes, reporting reductions in street homelessness and housing about 68 people per month, while emphasizing the need for more permanent supportive housing and opposing criminalization of homelessness. Hill also discusses mental health initiatives, including reopening an inpatient youth behavioral health facility with 92 beds, and local zoning reforms to encourage “missing middle” housing such as ADUs and fourplexes. She supports temporary rent caps, campaign finance reform, and modernizing Nevada’s tax system by taxing wealth, billionaires, and corporations, criticizes corporate incentives, questions the sustainability of film tax credits, and defines democracy as participation that requires stronger state engagement and county oversight.

(00:00) - Intro
(02:04) - Meet Alexsis Hill
(03:49) - How She Got Into Politics
(07:04) - Accomplishments as County Commissioner
(12:02) - Solving Homelessness
(22:04) - Missing Middle Housing & Rent Caps
(27:24) - Campaigning Statewide
(30:00) - Why She's Running for Governor
(33:45) - Are All Politicians Bought and Paid For?
(35:40) - Tax Reform & Revenue
(41:10) - Film Tax Credit & Economic Development
(45:32) - Democracy & Civic Engagement
(48:36) - Bridging Nevada's Racial & Political Divides
(55:00) - The Nevada Dream
(58:12) - Closing & Where to Find Her