Alyssa Halstead has a long history of service when it comes to public safety and health.
She's worked as a public health emergency manager for the City of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has a Master's degree in public health and education, and worked for 15 years in infectious disease planning for a pandemic.
Now she's running to represent the Hartwood District on the Stafford County School Board.
Halstead and her husband, a retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant, came to Virginia In 2012 and settled in Stafford three years later. The couple has two children and two rescue dogs from a boarding facility in Woodbridge, where she developed a curriculum to help children learn social and emotional empathy by bonding with shelter animals.
Potomac Local News talked with Halstead about her campaign for the school board seat and other issues related to the Stafford County Schools.
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