About Me

Raised on a farm in rural Washington County, Jodi Borello is the proud mother of three boys and the wife of a state trooper. Jodi is a small business owner and former community organizer who is fighting to make Harrisburg work for regular people, not big corporations or special interests.

Jodi has been a community advocate for over 15 years, not because she wanted to get into politics, but out of absolute necessity to protect her family, neighbors, and community.

In 2009, Jodi and her family built their dream home in South Franklin Township. Unbeknownst to them, an oil and gas company built a facility right behind their property, and for over a decade, that facility vented emissions three times a day, seven days a week. Members of Jodi’s family suffered chemical burns to their eyes and skin, and the facility destroyed their property value and way of life.

Jodi didn’t just stand by, she took action. She has testified before two statewide grand juries, and her testimony helped secure criminal charges against the company operating behind her home, leading to eight grand jury recommendations to reform the industry. When that same company tried to blame a low-level worker for the company’s negligence, Jodi stepped up to protect him. She told prosecutors that accountability belongs to the corporation, not the worker who was just trying to make a living to feed his family.

Jodi has grown a small business and organized her community, local workers, and people across the state to fight back against corporations trying to extract from our region. Most recently, as a community advocate and organizer, Jodi facilitated community forums on municipal policies and corporate developments while guiding residents through local resource management and regulatory compliance.

Over the past two years, Jodi has been beside our residents fighting against unwanted data centers, attending community meetings across the region and organizing her neighbors for a statewide data center moratorium.

The sad part is that Jodi’s story is not unique. Thousands of neighbors across the 46th district have experienced treatment like this at the hands of corporations and billionaires who are trying to extract everything from the community and give us nothing in return. Almost every person in the 46th district knows what it's like to have corporations run over them, whether it’s the oil and gas companies, the big tech companies, health insurance companies, or the utility companies.

When Jodi is in Harrisburg, her priority will always be constituents, not a handful of billionaires and big corporations.