Tamika Lyles is a mother, veteran, educator, nonprofit founder, and advocate. She served in the Air Force for seven years, taught in Florida's public schools for nine years, and has spent a decade advocating for working families.

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She's raised three sons as a single mother while working multiple jobs. Tamika knows Florida's affordability crisis isn't an accident; it's the result of leaders who protect insiders while families absorb the costs. She's running for FL-16 to stabilize insurance, make housing affordable, protect healthcare, raise wages, and restore the basic promise that work should lead to security.