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Please help our campaign for Austin City Council, District 4. Anything you can donate would help so much. I’m not a politician, but I can be political. I am an artist, a teacher, and a single parent struggling financially. I am balancing a full-time job as a public school teacher, a part-time job in a restaurant every weekend, and pick up any extra gigs I can land in order to pay bills and care for my children. I don’t have wealthy donors, interest groups, or political action campaign donations. 🖤🙏🏽🖤

Join us in engaging with District 4 community members to work together to identify challenges, goals, and continue in pursuit of our unique individual and collective American dreams. If elected to Austin City Council to represent District 4, we will be addressing topics such Housing/Affordability, Living wage/Employment, Safety/Policing, Development/Mobility, Healthcare/Wellness, Watershed/Environment, and Education/Career Development. 

While I can run on empty, I do have to pay for things along the way such as my Ballot Application filing fee, remit fees to the Texas Democratic Party Voter Activation Network. I bought wooden stakes for my yard signs that I’m going to stencil and spray paint. Friends are helping me take photos for my campaign flyers. I need ink to print the flyers and stamps to mail them out. 😅💰🤑

Your donation would help me represent and bring community members to the table in District 4 and across Austin, Texas. Every penny donated will go towards the materials and resources above and to fuel reimagining radical, progressive, and creative solutions for D4 and Austin. My heart is telling me to do this and I want to continue to expand my meaningful service to our community in impactful ways. We would also be a first Asian American and non-binary council member for D4. 🥰✊🏽🤓

Biography: 

Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, raised in Thailand, India, Canada, the Philippines, and Japan, Isa Boonto found a home in North Austin, Texas in 2003. As an Asian American, non-binary artist, they create artworks that reflect and represent iterations of their nomadic life that formulate their Asiatic-Futurist identity. Boonto earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA, 1997) in Canada and recently received a Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA, 2019).  

They also studied at the University of Maryland, Asian Division, Austin Community College and St. Edward’s University which culminated in them earning their Texas Teaching Certification for All Levels Art and Special Education, and Secondary English Language Arts. With 18 plus years classroom teaching experience, presently, Boonto is an Art Teacher with the Austin Independent School District (AISD) at Navarro Early College High School (NECHS) in North Austin. In addition to working full-time, they work part-time at a local restaurant in North Austin as a prep cook, and regularly seeks out work as part of the gig economy to support their family as a single parent.  

On their free time they served as a voting member of the Campus Advisory Council (CAC) for NECHS and are serving on the District Advisory Council (DAC) for AISD. They led the North Austin Civic Association (NACA) as Vice-President and Co-President and are part of the NACA Contact Planning Team (NCPT). They Co-Founded the North Austin Parent Advocacy (NAPA) Group, which helped form an African American Dual Language (AADL) Committee for AISD. Currently, they support Austin Mutual Aid as a Moderator and Crisis Support and are looking into supporting the Thai Association of Austin. Boonto resides in North Austin with two children, aged 15 and 8 and two dogs aged 5 and 2.  

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