Shadia Martini Aims to Deliver Lower Costs to Help Michigan's Working Families

As Michigan deals with an evolving economic landscape and national trends, Shadia Martini, a Michigan small business owner and human rights advocate, has thrown her hat into the ring for Michigan's 54th State House District. With a focus on the financial strain of high costs on families, Martini says she has a pragmatic plan to revitalize Michigan’s economy.

With Michigan’s median household income standing at $68,505, below the national median household income of $74,580, Martini says her platform resonates with the 54th District and the state. 

“I am committed to reaching across the aisle to enact pragmatic, pro-growth economic policy,” says Martini about her approach to lower costs, create jobs, and boost incomes. The pro-growth economic policy comes from experience that Martini says she gained first-hand as a small business owner over two decades. To address the soaring costs of living, Martini emphasizes the importance of pro-growth economic policies and initiatives tailored to the diverse needs of Michigan’s workers and communities—a skill she says she developed from business development and interacting with clients and customers over two decades.

Born in Aleppo, Syria, to pioneering surgeons, Martini says her upbringing instilled in her a deep sense of resilience and a commitment to social justice. Immigrating to the United States in 1992, Martini settled in southeast Michigan, where she attended the University of Michigan and earned her M.B.A. Since then, Martini has become an entrepreneur.