Candidate for New York State Assembly - District 43 in 2020 New York Regular and Presidential Primary Election.
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Get StartedI worked closely with Akeem Browder (brother of the late Kalief Browder who died at the hands of a broken legal system) to lead the efforts to pass Raise The Age. Now, because of my leadership, children aged 16 and 17 years old will no longer be incarcerated as adults. We need to do more to make sure that our youth are treated as potential CEOs and not CRIMINALS. Learn more
COVID-19 has proven that our country does not have the structure to protect our economic stability. If we are to overcome this we must support our local heroes or sheroes WITHIN OUR OWN COMMUNITY! While in office, I began to build a league of young engineers, programmers, coders, and entrepreneurs, by creating 'The Campus', a multi-faceted computer coding, tech, arts education program for OUR YOUTH, in OUR COMMUNITY AND in OUR OWN SCHOOLS. 'The Campus' keeps youth engaged socially and emotionally while grooming them to become the next great tech entrepreneur or groundbreaking scientist. Learn more
We MUST support local, small and MWBE businesses. While in Albany, I fought to give small businesses access to the financing they deserve to level the playing field to compete. COVID-19 will mean that ‘big business' will be asking for and receiving bailouts. We need to make sure that the money flows INTO and THROUGH our community, not OUT of it! Learn more
As State Senator, I was one of the first Elected officials to DEMAND that developers of the Armory project include AFFORDABLE HOUSING according to our local residents REAL Area Median Income. Learn more
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