Vivian Underwood Ship (D)

NGOs

Project Management

Worked for the US Postal Service for 35 years. During her tenure, she also served as the president of the local National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees union for 25 of those years.

Education
- Education means investing in strong schools, lifelong learning, and real opportunities so every child, family, and community can build a better future.
- Move Graduations back inside

Mental Health
- Mental health means treating emotional wellness, trauma care, and access to support as essential parts of a healthy community, not afterthoughts.

Housing for all
- Affordable housing means making sure working families, seniors, and young people can continue to live in Knox County without being priced out of the communities they call home.

Taxes
- Audit expenditures to find ways to make the system more efficient
- Open to exploring new grant funding

Infrastructure
- Faster Road Repair
- Expand Public Transportation
- Open to solar /electric transportation
- Open to public rail

Development
- Focus on Seniors and 1st time home buyers
- I want housing for those previously incarcerated developed to reduce recidivism.
- Single family homes, mixed use housing in new areas.
- I would like to work with developers to create ways to build without loss of more farmlands and protect our water.

Community Involvement
- Listen and Learn from all of the county district residents

Founder/ Director - "I AM" the Voice of the Voiceless

Purple- “People First”