meet Mara
My name is Mara Nagy, a lifelong resident of Pickering
As a teacher and a doctoral candidate, I bring a unique skill set, through my constant learning and development, my understanding and readiness for acceptance of new ideas, my ability to connect and meet people where they are, my knowledge and my distinct ability to support a growth mindset, as well as my comfort in diving into new and unfamiliar situations or scenarios and learning along the way, and my ease with admitting when I am wrong and when I need to think again or make a different decision.
We must recognise the safety of communities as our number one job, and we need to make sure, as councillors, that the City of Pickering is doing its job to make people feel safe and secure in their homes. Our community trusts me, and I want to honour that trust.
People are excited for change, as am I. Our council must be looking to work with residents, with the various communities of Pickering, as well as the larger community as a whole, in mind; we need to not just grow and encourage our businesses, but support them and their growth, as well as our essential workers, in order to both reduce resident taxes, and also to make Pickering a place to go and a place to grow.
I am here for the long run, and I am open, honest, and understanding. Transparency and inclusiveness are how I will succeed in my position as Ward 2 councillor, through engaging with and building trust in the community, and continuing to build and foster that trust for me within our neighbourhoods. Pickering has always provided me with opportunity, and I intend to be the voice Pickering needs now. Pickering has changed, and I am here to be that change on council, because I am the result of that change in the city. I have seen this change, moved with this change, and pushed myself into this change. I am prepared to work as hard as I can, to be mindful, sustainable, and community-oriented, and to amplify voices and provide platforms for others to speak, for everyone to come up together.
Land Acknowledgement
This campaign acknowledges that we, and the city of Pickering, are situated on land within the jurisdiction of the Williams Treaties, and it is on the traditional territory of the Mississauga of Scugog Island First Nations, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples that we work, live, and play. It is our continued responsibility to remember and remind also that reconciliation is a continuous and complex process, and a land acknowledgement is not enough; we need to continue to learn, unlearn, and take the time to put in the work and inform ourselves. I am explicitly and expressly committed to honouring, upholding, and implementing the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action, and I thank you for joining me in this.