Kodi grew up in the north Texas panhandle with a football coaching dad and home economics teaching mom sandwiched between two brothers. She graduated from Texas State University and made a career crafting public strategies for landowners, utilities, and private companies in the policy areas of water/wastewater, land use, and rural economics. She is recognized for her work at the urban-rural policy nexus, especially on water issues. The projects she executes, which are technically complex and spread over large geographic areas, come with the challenge of competing demographic groups. Her work affords her the opportunity to travel both the proverbial and literal road between red and blue Texas on a regular basis.

Kodi is an Independent candidate who aligns with the Forward Party's values of public service and problem-solving free of partisanship. She decided to run for office because she saw first-hand how the broken two-party system keeps local communities from addressing their issues at the state policy level. Instead, parties represent donors and party interests, not people. Unfortunately, that means communities can't meaningfully fix property taxes, implement appropriate checks on water and wastewater systems, or adequately fund our infrastructure (electricity and water).

She was motivated to run because this gerrymandered district in the Texas Hill Country represents so much of our constructed political angst: the rural-urban divide, communication echo chambers, and partisan extremism as a political strategy. However, she also believes the campaign is a perfect opportunity to discuss what connects us—the water and land. In her view, a Hill Country stream knows no political party nor a hilltop an ideological position.