Candidate Profile: Christina Miriam Felder (House District 97 Republican Primary)
Christina Miriam Felder is a candidate for House District 97 and is running as a Republican. Her name will appear on the June 17, 2025 ballot. Felder is running against challenger in the June primary. The winner will appear on the ballot for the General Election on Nov. 4.
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Name: Christina Miriam FelderAge: 28Website: https://christinafelder.com/
Educator, Mother, CEO, Fresh Voice, New Leader.
Christina Miriam Felder was raised in the District 3/District 97 community of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and has lived there for over 27 years. For the past 10 years, Felder has worked as an educator at all levels, K-12 and higher ed., within the field of education.
Felder has become the 1st Afro-Latina Republican woman of color politician in the United States as of 2024 and continues to be the 1st Afro-Latina Republican woman of color politician for the state of Virginia. Born to an African American Father and Puerto Rican Mother, to a bright student achieving the highest of degrees while attending one of the top schools in the state of Virginia at the time, and IVY League colleges within and outside of the United States at only 25 years old and at 28 years old. To becoming an educator, public figure, Virginia local/state political leader, and Mother to her beautiful daughter, Amerie.
Felder was also the youngest homeowner in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2020 at just twenty-three years old, with over one million views on Facebook that year. Felder has experienced many events in a short time and has traveled worldwide. Now, at twenty-eight years old, Felder has seen it all, dealt with it all, and takes no nonsense. Felder is a strong Republican and Christian woman who is committed to helping her community thrive even further.
Felder officially became a member of the Republican Party as of January 2025. She made history in 2024 as the first Afro-Latina woman of color to run as a Republican for her District 3 local election in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the age of twenty-seven. Felder is making history again as the first Afro-Latina woman of color to run as a Republican for the District 97 House of Delegates seat in the state election of Virginia in 2025 at the age of twenty-eight. Additionally, Felder made history by becoming the first Afro-Latina woman of color and the youngest founder and president of the first Republican Women's Chapter of the Virginia Beach District 97 community as of April 2025.
Felder is now wanting to give back her time to her home of District 3/District 97 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and be that fresh voice, new leader for her community. Felder has been and continues to be an inspiring role model for her community. Helping others is her passion in life.
This is my home, this is were I grew up. I am now raising my own daughter here. I've experienced all my 1st here. I never left. It wasn't until the year of 2021, the year I would say, that our amazing District 97 had become something so dramatically different. The massive changes brought upon us by the democratic administration, those next two years would feel like hell in the streets on District 97. I seen my community becoming a smoke world environment. They started putting up smoke shops on every corner in District 97. I said 'what is going on here'! Our youth was declining at rapid speed, as well as our adults/seniors. District 97 schools now rate on Google a 3/10, we used to be 10/10 back in 2020, I couldn't believe a 3/10 score. Don't even get me started on the crime skyrocketing to levels that Virginia Beach has never seen before. Including myself, I was also a victim of a crime back in 2023 at my own home, myself and my daughter at the time 8 months old were attacked by four strangely obsessed criminals. I was brutally beaten to death in the head and had to be rushed to the hospital. On top of that, I also seen in the courts, how the new 'Democratic Laws' helped for my criminals to basically walk away FREE, with no charges at all. I am still to this day being stalked/harassed by these criminals and had to now file to be heard in a higher court, because the lower courts don't want to deal with repeated issues. It takes years for our citizens to get justice within our community now, due to democratic leadership. This is not the Virginia Beach I knew and grew up in. We as citizens pay our taxes and want things to get done correctly. My fellow community members couldn't believe how much changes the democrats rapidly had done. So, now I am here and this will 'END NOW'! District 97 will no longer be deteriorating anymore. We will be stronger again and thrive again for generations to come.
Again, this is my home, I grew up here, I live through every event that happens in my community. I am the eyes and ears of my community. I am a proud product of what Virginia Beach City Public Schools District 97 Alum can become in life. I have shown my community time and time again how advanced I have become and how ready I am to serve my community of District 97. District 97 'MADE ME'! Now I am to give back my time to help my community and I feel that I have a duty to fulfill at this time. I know that God has set this time here and now is the time for me to fix my community from top to bottom. I have learned and observed and it's my time. I am ready to serve in this leadership role for my home of District 97 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I am well overly qualified!
I would like to first start on bills regarding guns, taxes, and crime. That is what I want to focus on day 1.
That is why there is a campaign finance report for the general public to see this information. All office leaders and candidates should be utilizing their campaign finance reports to document everything when it comes to finances.
I am a Republican, but I am also to lead the community of District 97. When it comes to voting, I will vote in the best interest of my district/community citizens. The people come first in all my decision making.
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