Austin ISD
Board of Trustees, District 4
Jessica Jessie Neufeld
Nonpartisan- On ballot as
- Jessica Jessie Neufeld
- Current role
- Lawyer
- Background
- Austin resident for 20 years, 17 of them in District 4 (per campaign)
- Two children in Austin ISD schools (per campaign)
- Lawyer for 19 years: construction law, later privacy attorney (per candidate survey)
- Experience
- Advocacy chair, Highland Park and Lamar PTAs
- Co-founder, ATX116, a group that works to connect Austin ISD school communities, with educator Heather Wong
- Top priorities
- "Improve mechanisms for district transparency and accountability."
- "Work to build more trust within and throughout the district"
- "pushing for a state system that provides resources to bolster, not hamstring, the district"
- Ballotpedia survey: "I want the budget built with community input early"
- Tidbits
- Curriculum and instructional materials: Ballotpedia survey (2026): building trust means "listening to teachers, principals, and staff about curriculum, planning time, and professional development"
- Library books: Campaign site photo caption: at a read-in "protesting laws restricting books in public schools and libraries" (May 2025)
- School funding and bonds: Ballotpedia survey (2026): passionate about school finance, "starting with raising the basic allotment to match or exceed what other states fund"
- Vouchers / school choice: Community Impact Q&A (Aug. 2026): the biggest challenge is "the concerted effort to dismantle Texas public education through underfunding, vouchers, charter school expansion and state takeovers"
- Endorsements
- Austin Central Labor Council
- Austin Young Democrats (listed by campaign)
- Education Austin (listed by campaign)
- Liberal Austin Democrats (listed by campaign)
- Tejano Democrats (listed by campaign)
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- University Democrats (listed by campaign)
- Travis County Judge Andy Brown (listed by campaign)
- Lynn Boswell, Austin ISD trustee and board president (listed by campaign)
- Arati Singh, Austin ISD trustee (listed by campaign)
- Fernando De Urioste, Austin ISD trustee (listed by campaign)
- Zo Qadri, Austin City Council, District 9 (listed by campaign)
- Mike Siegel, Austin City Council, District 7 (listed by campaign)
- Brigid Shea, Travis County Commissioner, Pct. 2 (listed by campaign)
- Pooja Sethi, former Travis County Democratic Party chair and candidate for House District 47 (listed by campaign)
- Allison Bush, candidate for State Board of Education District 5 (listed by campaign)
- Montserrat Garibay, candidate for House District 49 (listed by campaign)
- Patti Everett, Our Schools Our Democracy board member (listed by campaign)
- Noelita Lugo, former Austin ISD at-large trustee (listed by campaign)
- Amy Moore, Austin Supporters of Math Education coordinator (listed by campaign)
- Minda Anderson, Austin ISD librarian (listed by campaign)
- Campaign website
- jessieforaisd.com
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