I’m Will Imbrie-Moore.

I’m a teacher, lifelong organizer, and former senior policy researcher for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at campaign headquarters in Wilmington.

I’m running to be the youngest member of the Delaware General Assembly because we need a new generation of leadership to meet this moment, confront the affordability crisis, and fight for real change for working families.

As a 12th-generation Delawarean and the youngest of three, I learned the values of hard work and democracy from family and especially my grandfather. My childhood was defined by Pop-Pop’s time-honored stories sitting around the kitchen table under his old portrait of FDR. We talked for hours about his time serving as Delaware State Auditor and as a State Representative, about how to take on big policy fights, bring opposing people together, and make a real difference for people. Through faith in God, he taught me and my siblings to speak up for the most vulnerable among us, and he made me promise before he died to never lose faith that regular people can change the world. 

I got started in politics in 2016 to do everything I could to stop Trump, and I took home my first set of campaign office keys as a 17-year-old high schooler at St. Andrew’s in Middletown. Three weeks before my first day of college in August 2017, a horrifying experience forever cemented my journey toward public service: I counterprotested against a violent mob of white supremacists at the infamous Unite The Right rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. An attacker drove his car into the crowd and took the precious life of Heather Heyer, one of our fellow counterprotestors. I will forever carry with me Heather’s spirit and the terrors I saw that day.

But it was President Trump’s outrageous response to that day that struck me deep because it contradicted what I witnessed with my own eyes. That outrage led me back to my promise: to keep faith in the good of regular people to fight for change.

I became a political organizer in college and eventually a staffer for President Biden and Vice President Harris. In Wilmington, we were the first unionized headquarters of any U.S. presidential nominee. Our devastating loss to Trump left me alarmed about my generation’s future and led me to pursue a new career in teaching. Learning students’ hopes and fears for their future has shown me a sad but undeniable truth: Delaware’s economic promise to working families is slipping out of reach, drowning under the cost of housing, groceries, and childcare.

The system is failing students, workers, families, and seniors - even as it works better than ever for billionaires, corporate PACs, and lobbyists.

They have the money, but we have the people. No matter what moneyed interests we’re up against, I’ll never lose faith in regular people to fight for change and win. Door to door, face to face, in every corner of our community, we are organizing together to write a new chapter of Delaware’s economic promise and make government work for all of us.