Jen Strebs

Championed the Kalamazoo County board's $100,000 ARPA investment in a partnership with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt that erased $2,485,832 of medical debt for 7,231 county residents in the first quarter of 2025, saying no one should have to choose between health and financial security.

July 17, 2025For

Source: kalcounty.gov · researched July 23, 2026

As chair of the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners, announced on December 16, 2025 the board's approval of a $23.3 million three-year philanthropic investment launching the county's 'Keys to Kalamazoo' draft housing framework, which funds a county housing voucher pilot and other measures aimed at reducing housing instability.

December 16, 2025For

Source: kalcounty.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Backed and publicly defended the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners' October 7, 2025 approval of more than $1.25 million in 'Homes for All' housing millage allocations, funding a fire-suppression system at Healthy House, housing development by Edison Community Partners-Kal Recovery, and Tiny Houses of Hope Phase II.

October 7, 2025For

Source: kalcounty.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Publicly campaigned for the Kalamazoo County childcare millage placed on the August 4, 2026 primary ballot, telling WWMT News Channel 3 in a June 15, 2026 interview that the county is an existing childcare desert and that families cannot afford care at current income levels.

June 15, 2026For

Source: wwmt.com · researched July 23, 2026

Completed her tenure as chair of the Kalamazoo County Opioid Settlement Fund Taskforce, which directed opioid-settlement remediation grant funding to community-based prevention, treatment and recovery nonprofits, and reported the result in a December 30, 2025 year-in-review of her term as county board chair.

December 30, 2025For

Source: jenstrebs.com · researched July 23, 2026

Served three and a half years as a trustee of Kalamazoo Township, first by appointment and then by election, before winning election as a Kalamazoo County commissioner in 2021; is now a three-term commissioner for District 2 who chairs the county board appointments committee and sits on the Continuum of Care board of directors, the county Environmental Health Advisory Council, the Open Data Citizen Oversight Advisory Committee, and the Department of Health and Human Services board, per her biography page verified live on 2026-07-23.

July 23, 2026

Source: jenstrebs.com · researched July 23, 2026

Earned the Equality Michigan Action Network's full 'Endorsed' rating for Michigan House District 41 on its 2026 endorsement slate, the tier the organization reserves for candidates with a record of pro-equality action, published 2026-06-01.

June 1, 2026

Source: equalitymiaction.org · researched July 23, 2026

Was re-elected chair of the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners on January 6, 2026 in a unanimous vote of the board, beginning a second consecutive one-year term leading the eleven-member county board.

January 6, 2026

Source: kalcounty.gov · researched July 23, 2026