For many of us, New Orleans is too expensive, too unsafe, and too hard to live in.
Aimee Mccarron believes there is a better way.
Broken Roads. Violent Crime. Constant Flooding. Persistent Blight. Aimee McCarron shares our frustration with the constant problems that make living in New Orleans so hard. But she is determined to break through the City’s inaction on these persistent problems and get things done for our communities. She knows we can make progress by relentlessly holding government accountable where it counts – in our neighborhoods and in its wallet.
Aimee believes every neighborhood should be able to thrive and that’s why she’s running for City Council District A.
Meet Aimee
Lifelong District A Resident
A lifelong District A resident, Aimee is a mother of twins and a budget geek. She is a proud graduate of Ursuline Academy High School, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and the University of New Orleans. Aimee currently serves as the Policy and Budget Director for Councilmember Joe Giarrusso, for District A.
Working Her Way Up
A veteran of the New Orleans service industry, Aimee learned early on in life the value of hard work and the joys and struggles that service employees experience everyday. To convince her parents to let her start driving, Aimee started working as a phone server at Reginelli’s so she could pay for her own car insurance. During college she worked full-time as a line cook at Sun Ray Grill and Ralph’s on the Park, all while she was a full-time college student. At UNO, Aimee studied Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, which led her to work her way up from the kitchen to Sales Manager at Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group.
Trading Spoons for Spreadsheets
After a successful run in the service industry, Aimee traded her kitchen spoons for spreadsheets, becoming a City Business Award-winning financial advisor for 8 years with Prudential Advisors. Clients trusted Aimee to plan and budget for all stages of their financial life and how to help make money work for them. Her experience in finance gave her insight into the problems and inefficiencies inherent in our system. That’s when she knew she needed to find something outside of work where she could begin to affect change in her community.
With years of professional experience across sectors and a reputation of trustworthiness, Aimee set out to apply her passion and tenacity to improving our community and our shared home. After election as President of the Young Leadership Council, her commitment to public service drove her to seek out an opportunity to work directly on the problems she saw all around our community.
Called to Serve and Delivering Results
She found that role as a public servant in the Office of District A Councilmember and Budget Chair Joe Giarrusso. Despite it being her first formal public sector opportunity, her experience earned her the role of Budget and Policy Director, the Council’s point person responsible for helping craft and manage the City’s $1.5B budget. With this new opportunity, Aimee centered her work translating her passion for accountability and leading productive collaboration into thoughtful and aggressive funding decisions.
Jumping in with both feet, Aimee quickly took command of the role she earned from Councilmember Giarrusso and immediately applied her wide-ranging experience and passion for her City to drive change by:
Building Housing: Created the Affordable and Workforce Housing Gap Finance Fund with $32M of funding to bring over 1200 affordable housing units online in the next two years.
Prioritizing Mental Health: Creation of the Mental Health Collaborative with United Way to identify and fill gaps in mental healthcare in the city and expand access to care.
Accountable Budgeting: Ensuring communities and neighbors had a seat at the table when major spending decisions - like hundreds of millions in Federal relief dollars - are being made.
Putting Healthcare in Schools: Funded pilot program for increasing School Based Medicaid Billing to help schools bill correctly for mental health services in schools and provide much needed funding they are leaving on the table each year.
Demanding Transparency and Accountability for Infrastructure: Created the DPW & Code enforcement dashboards for more transparency of what the departments are doing.
Reforming Our Government: Worked to created and empower a new Code Enforcement Department and enhanced transparency through a more people-friendly Budget timeline.
Committed to our Community
Aimee is actively engaged in her community, including past and present service on:
Young Leadership Council, Past President, 2019, currently on the finance committee., past chair of the nominations committee, Role Model Gala co-chair, and the chair of the strategic planning committee
Lakeview Crime Prevention District, Commissioner
KIPP New Orleans, Finance Committee
Independent Women’s Organization (IWO), Board Member
Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR)
Lakeview Civic Association
When she is not working or volunteering, Aimee enjoys cooking, exercising, and spending time with her husband, Ross McCarron, MD, their 5 year old twins, Conrad and Vivienne, and their cat Gandalf.
Getting OUr City Back on Track
The work to get New Orleans and our neighborhoods back on track is just beginning. For too many years, mismanagement and the lack of urgency has caused significant damage to our city and lowered our quality of life.
Aimee believes this can - and must - change.
She is dedicated to righting the City’s ship through relentless work, fearless independence, and an urgent passion for the people of our City.
As a community advocate, a mother of a young family, and a dedicated servant of the public, Aimee believes that New Orleans can truly be a City where everyone thrives. She knows we need better performance and more urgency from our government. She will tirelessly hold leaders accountable, build consensus and keep working to make us proud of our City again. But she needs our help.
