Please identify any openly LGBTQ candidate for public office you have previously or presently endorsed? New Yorkers cannot afford the politics of least resistance and deserve leadership that will beat a path to shared prosperity - to become one city, rising together, out of the ashes and into a future we build and live together. My vision is a New York that rises fromthe ashes of twin pandemics - coronavirus and systemic racism - that deny investment for people of color. I will fight for New Yorkers of all races, religions, classes, and sexualities. I served as the Chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board and also Co-Chaired the School Diversity Advisory Group convened by the Chancellor of the Department of Education.
I left city government and became the Senior Vice President for Social Justice and joined the faculty at the New School, and stayed engagedin change-making outside of government employment. I have spent three decades doing just that as a civil rights attorney, racial justice advocate, non-profit leader, and as a member of the senior leadership team in City Hall responsible for civil and human rights, women and minority-owned businesses, universal broadband, and much more. This is within our reach, but it requires bold leadership that fearlessly confronts the realities New Yorkers face in partnership with our communities. I am uniquely positioned to be a transformative leader because I know marshal all of the government’s resources to serve our people and know who has not been served well by the government and how to change that. I will make history, not deals. From a place of principles, I will transcend business-as-usual tinkering and set this City on the path to transformation so that we develop without displacement, a job with a future, an education system that sees all of our children as exceptional and puts the public back in public safety and more. After City Hall I was able to get the case against Daniel Pantaleo to the NYPD and retain civilian protection of that trial, which eventually got him off the force.
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And I did it by pulling people together inside and outside of government - from helping breakthrough the log jam on the first Sanctuary City legislation to getting every single unit in Queensbridge Houses free city broadband. There, I delivered for New Yorkers on civil and human rights, women and minority-owned businesses, universal broadband, and much more. I am the only candidate in this race that has formulated and built change making with communities outside of government and has also served as a member of the senior leadership team in City Hall where I had to help make real change and became thoroughly familiar with the inner workings of the mayor's office. As a civil rights attorney, advocate and nonprofit organization leader, I havespent three decades confronting injustice and working in partnerships to create solutions to systemic problems from inadequate public school funding, access to health care, criminal justice reform and digital divide issues, among many others.
These experiences taught me how government and policy inscribed structural inequities and that people impacted must be authors of new ones that dismantle what’s unjust and co-create what will support dignity and justice. My philosophy is shaped both by my parents’ civil rights and economic justice organizing, living in a gentrifying Black community and attending a segregated school.
I am running for Mayor because I am a change making leader who can bring New Yorkers together to recover from the COVID-19 crisis in a way that reimagines New York City so that it can be a city where we all can thrive. Explain, based on life experiences and accomplishments, why you believe you are best qualified to represent your district
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