In her first term, she was the principal author or co-sponsor of numerous Board resolutions, including Expansion of Immersive Outdoor Learning Opportunities, Safe Storage of Firearms for the Prevention of Gun Violence, and Expanding Access to School Board Public Meetings By Providing In-person and Remote Participation. She is the first PUSD Trustee to be elected President of Los Angeles County School Trustees Association, a coalition of trustees from nearly one hundred K-12 and community college districts across the county. As the PUSD Chair of the Legislative Advocacy Committee, she led the effort polling the voters on a potential parcel tax that could finally make teacher and staff pay competitive in order to retain and attract the most qualified teachers and staff.

Trustee Fredericks is most passionate about her work in legislative advocacy. She has not missed one CSBA Legislative Action annual visit with our school district’s representatives in CA Assembly and Senate, efforts which effectively helped to pass “hold harmless” policies while districts brought attendance levels back up to pre-pandemic levels. She will be heading to Washington D.C. in April 2024 on her second federal trip to advocate for increasing funding for the growing special education student population; investing in training and recruitment programs to address the educator shortage crisis, increasing funding for student mental health prevention and intervention programs.

Trustee Fredericks is the only PUSD Board member who has experience as a K-12 public school teacher. She served as a high school math teacher at Burbank High School and Northern California public middle and high schools. She is a former employee of PUSD, serving as a third grade teaching assistant at Willard International Baccalaureate Elementary School and summer school LEARNs teacher at San Rafael Elementary School.

In 2023, Trustee Fredericks enjoyed tutoring first graders at McKinley Elementary School through the African-American Parent Council Math Power Hour in order to increase achievement and confidence in math. She also volunteers in greening projects for Amigos De Los Rios at schools across the district. 

Trustee Fredericks has been an active parent volunteer, serving on Willard IB Elementary PTA Board as Vice President, Treasurer, and Legislative Advocate. She also currently serves on the Rose City High School PTSA Bylaws Committee.

Trustee Fredericks is a product of public schools and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from University of California, San Diego. She works full-time as a computer engineer at Green Dot Corporation. She is a mother of two daughters, one, who is currently an eighth-grader at PUSD Octavia E. Butler Magnet, and another, who enrolled  at California State Los Angeles Early Entrance Program at age 13 after attending Willard International Baccalaureate (IB) Elementary School, Blair IB Middle School, and McKinley Middle School and Math Academy in the PUSD District. Fredericks has lived with her husband and two daughters in Pasadena since 2010.