Full-time candidate, attorney

Attorney, Executive Chamber, Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo
Deputy National Operations Director, Hillary for America
Assistant General Counsel, NYS Office of Storm Recovery
Legal Fellow, NYS Division of Homes and Community Renewal

B.S. in Communications from New York University, Summa Cum Laude
J.D. from Fordham University, Cum Laude

I’m running for the New York State Senate in District 34, where I was born and raised because the people of the Bronx and Westchester deserve better. This time last year, working in the Executive Chamber, I was tasked with coming up with a strategy to pass the Reproductive Health Act. My first reaction was, how has this act, which codifies Roe v. Wade, not passed long ago? I quickly realized that it hadn’t passed for the same reason a whole host of other progressive priorities haven’t—a Republican-controlled State Senate that has been enabled and empowered for years by my own “Democratic” State Senator, Jeff Klein, and his IDC cohorts. I will fight for these progressive priorities — including fully funding our public schools (which are owed $88 million), closing loopholes that allow landlords to raise the rent, protecting women’s reproductive rights, and making it easier to vote.