Candidate for New York State Senate - District 31 in 2022 New York Primary Election.
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Get StartedGiving judges the discretion they need to keep the public safe when dealing with defendants who are repeat offenders. Building stronger relations between local police precincts and communities to stop unjust arrests while bringing back safety to our streets. Expanding resources for formerly incarcerated individuals to reduce recidivism, including expanding access to employment. Learn more
Increasing the number of psychiatric units across NYC hospitals and stopping their relocation to areas outside of NYC. Investing in more social service workers who can work alongside public safety officers to move the chronically homeless off of our streets and into supportive housing. Learn more
Opening more opportunities to access capital by incentivizing more community banks and credit unions to open in immigrant communities and communities of color. Easing regulations that often make it challenging for small businesses to open and stay operational. Learn more
Addressing skyrocketing commercial rents for small business owners that’s driving many out of business and into the streets. Improving access to information in multiple languages so that changes in rules and regulations do not come as a surprise. Learn more
Converting more of our schools into community schools so that our school buildings serve as a central hub of services for the entire community. Our families should have access to health, wellness, and legal services among others. Funding schools so that we meet the professionally prescribed social worker to student, school counselor to student, and school psychologist ratios. Learn more
Advancing dual language programming to create global citizens. Embedding financial literacy and civic education in our curriculum. Funding programs that work to improve school climate and culture to end the school-to-prison pipeline and reduce classroom removals and school suspensions disproportionately affecting students of color. Learn more
Lowering class sizes to give educators more time to customize lesson plans for each student on their roster so that lessons meet students at their level of need. Ensuring that each public school has the professionals necessary to meet the needs of enrolled students with special needs and multilingual learners. Learn more
Expanding wind turbines on our shores and adding wind farms on land. Creating incentives to transition drivers from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. Pushing homeowners to install solar panels on their roofs. Planting more trees and installing flood absorbing material on our streets. Learn more
Transitioning our state to be carbon-free so we move toward a full green economy. Replacing roofs on all public buildings including schools, hospitals, police precincts, and fire stations so that we can install solar panels on their roofs. Learn more
Curbing the supply of guns coming into New York City from other states. Learn more
Conducting transit studies in high congestion areas to reduce noise pollution and improve air quality. Expanding access to mental health services, particularly for marginalized communities including young students of color and students who identify as LGBTQAI+. Learn more
Reducing nurse staffing ratios across all unites in hospitals so we are not overburdening our service providers. Increasing access to fresh produce in low-income communities and pushing for farm-to-table programs to expand into public schools. Learn more
Legislating until all residents of New York State, regardless of immigration status, have access to affordable healthcare. Ceasing the closure of psychiatric units across NYC hospitals and their relocation to difficult-to-reach areas outside of the city. Supporting our safety-net hospitals to break the two-tier healthcare systems that exist with the wealthy accessing a different level of care than low-income communities. Learn more
Expanding and increasing the value of rental vouchers that help move families living in shelters and temporary housing into permanent housing. Investing in more social service workers who can work alongside public safety officers to move the chronically homeless off our streets and into supportive housing. Learn more
Protecting and expanding NYC's right-to-counsel law so that all tenants facing eviction in Housing Court or NYCHA administrative proceedings have access to free legal representation. Reforming 421(a) because the current 80/20 split is not enough to create the amount of affordable housing that's needed and to stop the displacement of low-income communities of color. Learn more
Fighting to secure state capital investment funding for desperately needed maintenance and repairs in NYCHA public housing. Stopping the privatization of public housing–we need more government investment, which in turn leads to mmore unionized work. Learn more
Modernizing our subway signaling system so that our trains are not delayed, and we can get our destinations on time. Increasing access to public bike sharing programs and ensuring bike docks are full regardless of neighborhood or zip code. Expanding the installation of protected bike lanes and increasing funding for vision zero efforts. Learn more
Making our commutes feel safe again. Working to address homelessness on the subway because no person should make our subway system their home. Advocating for the development of a rapid bus transit system to encourage more bus use and reduce congestion on our street. Learn more
Advocating for more private sector unionization across the state, taking recent unionization victories in Amazon sites as an example. Fighting all attempts to take away fringe benefits including collective bargaining rights, pensions, and health insurance. Reining in exorbitant hospital costs to lower healthcare expenses in NYC’s budget and use the savings to increase wages and salaries. Learn more
Protecting our state’s Taylor Law that sets the foundational rights for public sector collective bargaining and organizing. Ensuring construction projects that receive public funding pay prevailing wages and use unionized labor. Promoting teleworking for positions whose responsibilities can be performed remotely, at least partially, to offer employees more flexibility and lower wasted commuting hours. Learn more
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