Miranda Weigler

Miranda Weigler earned a high school diploma from Lincoln High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of St. Andrews in 2004, and a graduate degree from the London School of Economics in 2008. Her career experience includes working as an educator.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Miranda Weigler — a writer, civic educator, mother, and lifelong Oregonian. I've spent two decades studying how political and economic systems work, why they so often fail the people they're supposed to serve, and what it would take to redesign them around real human lives.I've worked in cannabis policy, built civic education programs, and raised two kids while navigating the same housing, childcare, and economic pressures most Oregon families face. I'm not a career politician. I'm someone who got tired of waiting for the right moment and decided to show up anyway.I'm running for Governor because Oregon deserves a politics rooted in honesty, dignity, and the courage to do hard things — not just manage decline more efficiently.This campaign is also a public experiment: what happens when we make politics transparent, accessible, and designed for real people instead of insiders? The answer is at runninganyway.com.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Oregon's challenges aren't about effort or resources — they're about systems design. We have enough money, enough talent, and enough good intentions. What we lack is the political will to arrange them differently. I'm running to bring a different kind of thinking to the Governor's office: one that starts from outcomes, measures success by people helped rather than dollars accounted for, and treats dignity as a design requirement — not an afterthought.Oregon needs a new economic direction. We've been patching and adapting since the timber economy collapsed without a coherent vision for what comes next. I believe the regenerative economy — green manufacturing, care infrastructure, circular supply chains, plant medicine research, resilient local food systems — offers a real framework for Oregon's future. Not a slogan. A direction that builds on what Oregon already does uniquely well and competes for the industries of the next 50 years.Politics works better when it reflects how people actually live. This campaign is built around three ideas: name the real problem people are experiencing, state solutions in human terms, and treat policy mechanisms as tools — not the point. I'm not running to win arguments. I'm running to widen the conversation about what Oregon can be — and to show that a more honest, more human politics is possible right now, not someday.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

The policy areas where systems most visibly fail real people: economic redesign and building a regenerative Oregon economy that works for working families and rural communities; care infrastructure — childcare, elder care, and family stability treated as economic infrastructure, not charity; cannabis policy and regulated markets; public health as a systems question, including harm reduction, the opioid crisis, and plant medicine research; juvenile justice and early intervention over punishment; political economy and aligning market incentives with long-term community wellbeing; and civic education — making politics legible and accessible to people who've been locked out by design.