Margaret completed her degree at Emory University while working full-time in constituent affairs for the Secretary of State of Georgia. She went on to work for The Carter Center in Public Information and later worked for a year on The Atlanta Project before President Carter announced its inception, continuing in this position until leaving the Center. After her marriage, she assisted with the operation of her husband’s restaurants. Margaret recently started a new business, Welcome Baby, a program that delivers gift boxes to new mothers. She is also currently the business manager for her husband’s and his business partner’s restaurants and is the President of her own small business, Kaiser Dough and Pizza Concepts (which provides the pizza for Turner Field).  

Margaret has been involved in volunteer activities since grade school where she studied signing to help with special needs children at her school. She volunteered as a Miriam at St. Mary’s Hospital and gave many hours helping with a favorite project—the Athens Emergency Food Bank. To help pay for college expenses at Emory University, she worked in constituent services for Georgia’s Secretary of State. She also volunteered in the evenings at a homeless shelter across the street from the Capital. She was actively involved with United Way’s Big Sister/Big Brother program serving as a mentor to a young girl during a crucial time in her life. 

Recently, Margaret helped organize and establish the Neighborhood Charter School. As a member of its volunteer governing board, she served as personnel chair for three years and as a member of the Founding Governing Board. Currently, she is a delegate to Neighborhood Planning Unit W (NPU-W) for Grant Park and is a member of NPU-W’s public safety committee. She has been active in a number of campaigns of pro-choice candidates running offices.

Margaret is seeking the office to provide accessible, proactive, accountable service for the constituents of House District 59. She wants to be a voice of fairness and honesty and promises to be committed to studying and understanding every issue and voting in a way that is representative of the people who elect her.

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The District: District 59 is extraordinarily diverse, in economic, racial, educational, cultural and lifestyle terms.  It ranges from new high rises in Midtown Atlanta south through older neighborhoods such as Sweet Auburn and Grant Park to Lakewood.