What I Have Done

I have worked to advance public safety, civil rights, and community accountability across multiple fronts, in partnership with residents and local organizations.

• Pushed for the repeal of the discriminatory “Walking While Trans” ban

• Supported and advocated for meaningful bail reform to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention and promote fairness in the justice system

• Worked with the Lower East Side community coalition to elevate neighborhood concerns and push for community-driven solutions

• Cosponsored anti-ICE events and efforts to protect immigrant families and strengthen trust between communities and local institutions

• As CB1 Quality of Life co-chair, met regularly with the local precinct to address ongoing neighborhood concerns and improve responsiveness to community issues

• Successfully pushed for DID to sign onto the Justice Roadmap in 2021, aligning local stakeholders with broader criminal justice reform priorities

What I Will Do

Public safety means creating communities where people feel secure, supported, and treated fairly. Real safety comes from accountability, prevention, mental health support, and investments that strengthen neighborhoods — not policies that criminalize poverty, separate families, or rely on mass incarceration.

• Support common-sense bail reform and expand alternatives to incarceration so pretrial detention is based on public safety, not a person’s income or ability to pay bail

• Ensure people experiencing mental health or substance use crises receive treatment and supportive care instead of being sent to jails like Rikers Island

• Reduce over-policing and invest in violence prevention, restorative justice, youth programs, mental health services, and other community-based public safety initiatives

• End qualified immunity, increase transparency in police custody, and strengthen accountability measures for police misconduct

• Protect immigrant communities by prohibiting ICE enforcement in schools, courts, and houses of worship, and preventing local law enforcement from acting as federal immigration agents

• Support marijuana legalization with reinvestment into communities harmed by the War on Drugs, and expand harm-reduction and substance use treatment programs

• Reform parole and sentencing laws by eliminating mandatory minimums, supporting elder parole, and expanding post-conviction relief and Clean Slate protections

• End prolonged solitary confinement, ban forced prison labor, and ensure incarcerated people are treated with dignity, including housing placements that respect gender identity

• Expand access to education, workforce training, affordable communication, and family visitation for incarcerated individuals to support successful reentry and stronger families

• Eliminate predatory court fines, fees, and supervision costs that trap people in cycles of poverty and criminalization

• Invest in housing, healthcare, education, mental health services, and economic opportunity instead of continuing failed policies of mass incarceration

• Raise the minimum age for juvenile delinquency and prioritize rehabilitation, restorative justice, and second-chance opportunities for young people instead of punitive approaches