Before running for Congress, Heli Rodriguez Prilliman built a nail salon into a startup, founding Lacquerbar to fix what she saw as a broken beauty-school system that sets up nail techs, especially women of color, to fail.
Raised in rural Stephenville, Texas, Rodriguez Prilliman went to Texas A&M, then spent years in Silicon Valley building startups, including an early role at the loyalty-software company Fivestars, before returning to Fort Worth to open Lacquerbar. She's running for Texas's 12th Congressional District pushing universal healthcare not tied to a job, a $10-a-day child care cap, and getting billionaire money out of politics.
Prilliman’s take on Texas values
Protecting voting rights is listed as a core priority of her campaign. [helifortexas.com]