Toni is running for California Governor to continue her work uplifting and enhancing our state — and to ensure that the California Dream is accessible to everyone.

Her story is one of struggle and success, and started in the rural reaches of Appalachia, where she grew up one of four children to Betty and Jim Atkins. Despite working themselves to the bone, Jim, a lead and coal miner, and Betty, a seamstress who worked in a garment factory, lived paycheck to paycheck, renting a home without running water and an outhouse to share.