Dani Sterbinsky

Dani Sterbinsky lives in Wittmann with her husband, Phillip, their daughter and two dogs, Sadie and Pepper.¹ Both she and her husband are Navy veterans, and she has described the pressures of paying for housing, health care and child care as a central reason for seeking office.¹

Sterbinsky served as an operations specialist aboard the destroyer USS Bainbridge in the Mediterranean.¹ She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Hawaii West Oahu and a graduate degree at Grand Canyon University, with studies in social sciences and industrial organizational psychology.²¹

Her civilian career has included academic advising, and she identifies human resources and the way organizations work as areas of professional experience.²¹ Her platform proposes congressional term limits, changes to campaign finance, stronger public schools and support for small businesses and employment in rural communities.²

Sterbinsky also supports a public health insurance option, lower prescription and child care costs, a higher federal minimum wage and action against corporate consolidation and algorithmic price fixing.¹ She is the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Paul Gosar in the Ninth District, where the general election field also includes independent write in candidates William Perry and G. Seville Hatch.²