About Me

• CPS Energy Citizens Advisory Committee Member

• 2022-2027 City of San Antonio Bond – Housing Committee Member

• City of San Antonio Bond – Housing Committee RFP Scoring Committee

• City of San Antonio – Board of Adjustments Commissioner

• Feeding America & San Antonio Food Bank – National Food Inequity Advocate

Born in El Paso, Texas, Lawson was raised in south Texas in the rural town of San Diego, Texas.
She was raised by a single-mom and her grandmother— both of whom she loved very much. The majority of her childhood was spent in San Diego, being raised on traditional values that included being taught what it meant to be of service to her community.

She graduated from Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco High School and graduated college with her Bachelors in Business Administration - Marketing from the University of the Incarnate Word.

She has lived in San Antonio for over 13 years. Her time here has not come without struggles. Lawson experienced insecurities with housing that resulted in her having to drop out of school in order to focus on working to make enough money to pay for her vehicle— which also was her place of shelter, and save up enough money to get into an apartment. Lawson has been very candid of her experience and has used her own experience to champion access to resources at local, state, and federal levels.

After eventually returning back to school to graduate — all thanks to the support of her family, she went on to become a marketing professional and later focused on policy and strategic planning for community outreach in marginalized communities across the U.S.

Her advocacy has helped shape the framework for funds allocated toward Housing in the San Antonio’s City Bond($150 million)— the first time the city had ever allocated funds toward housing.

She has voiced her concerns and proposed collaborative and cohesive solutions to aid in addressing food inequities across the United States by working with others with lived-experiences, policy makers, and elected officials and White House Administration through her partnership with Feeding America and the San Antonio Food Bank.

Throughout her career, she has always led and designed strategic plans focused on designing inclusive communities through a lens of compassion and innovation. She has implemented tech and out of the box opportunities into community engagements for folks to have access to alternate ways of learning information for complex and technical projects and presentations.

Today, Lawson continues to live out her commitment to help the community that she says helped her when she had nothing. She has dedicated 100% of her time and focus to working for her community.

Lawson has expressed that her run for office is a “public display of affection for the beautiful community,” that has done so much to empower and support her.