Our Candidates for 2025

• Former member, Board of Assessment Appeals
• Former Chair, Conservation, Open Space & Agriculture Commission
• Retired Executive Director, Willimantic Housing Authority
• Former President, Northeast Chapter Connecticut Civil Liberties Union
• Author & activist

• Computer techie and numbers guy since 1966
• Process and detail oriented
• Willimantic resident since 1983
• Former Ethics Commission Chair
• Twice former Charter Revision Commission Vice Chair
• Board of Finance 2017-2021
• As a Justice of the Peace I help a very wide range of people get married
• Retired from The Hartford Insurance Group, IBM, and Scotland School
• Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, concentration in Accounting, ECSU

A lifelong educator. Rose understands that Willimantic’s diversity is its greatest strength and the key to helping our community thrive. Rose is a neighborhood activist who has fought to defend our public schools and help working families through her work as an NAACP member and as a vice president of our local American Federation of Teachers. Rose raised her daughter, Ava, in Willimantic. They live on Summit Street and are members of the Willimantic Food Co-Op.

• Working Families Party member cross-endorsed by the Windham Greens
• Member CT AFT Legislative/Political Action Committee
• Member Boricua Vota Windham CT branch
• Bilingual local elementary school teacher
• Planning & Zoning Commissioner
• Member, honor society, Pi Lambda Theta, NEAG School of Education, UConn

• Ecology professor at Eastern Connecticut State University
• Ph.D. in Aquatic Resources – Biology
• Believes in making logical, science-based decisions that value citizens and their environment.

• Eastern Connecticut State University Alumnus
• Lifelong resident of the area
• Volunteer with 3rd Thursday and Friends of the Garden on the Bridge
• Will promote community engagement, economic development and rejuvenation of Willimantic/Windham

Dagmar had been elected to the Zoning Board of Appeals, 2 year term, and served for most of 2024 but had to resign after accepting a job that precluded service in this role.