Campaigning For The Future You Want. Karen McClelland welcomes Ylenia Aguilar, candidate for Arizona Corporation Commission. Since becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, Aguilar has become a dynamic public servant.
In addition to raising two children and working as Business Development Manager with a water analytics company, she has served on a school board, the board of a health foundation, and she currently serves as a member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.
One of her passions is ensuring that all people have access to clean, life-giving water today and in the future. As a member of the Corporation Commission, she hopes to hold corporations accountable for responsibly using water and our other natural resources.
“Most people don’t understand that water and energy go hand in hand. If we don’t have water in our dams – in our reservoirs – that impacts our energy,” Aguilar explains. “We need to have leaders that plan long-term versus short-term, because we need to think about our future generations. Not just what’s happening right now.”
“We need innovative leaders with creative ideas, with different platforms. The previous commissioners…the current commissioners who have been there for a long time have not thought about conservation and our current climate change, right?” She says that you don’t have to go far to notice climate change. “We live in Arizona. We notice it. It’s going to get really hot.”