Alexa Avilés
Alexa Avilés is a City Council Member representing District 38. She has spent two decades fighting for Sunset Park residents, serving on a PTA, Community Board 7, and organizing to protect her neighbors from ICE. Now, she’s taken that fight to City Hall to protect our vibrant neighborhoods—from passing transformative climate protections to upholding our City’s Sanctuary laws as Immigration Chair. She’s building worker and tenant power and supporting movements for autonomy and freedom, from Puerto Rico to Palestine.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a democratic socialist and U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District. She organizes with working people across the Bronx and Queens to tax the rich, expand Medicare for All, and confront the climate crisis.
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Chi Ossé
Chi Ossé is a City Council Member representing District 36 in Brooklyn. The Council’s youngest and only Gen-Z member, he defeated the real estate lobby and its corporate allies to end the exploitative practice of forced rental broker fees. Since taking office, he has invested in solutions to the affordable housing crisis while fortifying New York as a nation-leading city for progressive governance and prosperity for working-class families. Ossé serves as Co-Chair of the Brooklyn Delegation and the LGBTQIA+ Caucus.
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Claire Valdez
Claire Valdez is a union organizer and artist representing Assembly District 37 in Queens. A dual citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation and the United States, she organizes to tax the rich, expand social housing, and build working-class power. She lives in Ridgewood.
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Diana Moreno
Diana Moreno is an immigrant from Ecuador, working mom, and Assemblymember representing District 36 in Queens. She has been a labor organizer and immigrant workers’ advocate for over a decade. Moreno ran for Assembly to fight for working class and immigrant New Yorkers against the rising tide of fascism.
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Emily Gallagher
Emily Gallagher is an Assembly Member representing District 50 in Brooklyn. Elected in 2020, she defeated a 50-year incumbent who outspent her eight to one. Gallagher’s passed landmark, first-in-the-nation bills like the LLC Transparency Act and the All Electric Buildings Act and is one of the Assembly’s fiercest champions for climate, safe streets, and housing justice.
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Jabari Brisport
Senator Jabari Brisport is a former public school teacher and the Chair of the Children & Families Committee in the Senate. He is the sponsor of the Universal Child Care Act; his relentless advocacy alongside parents and providers articulated the need for affordable, quality care that paved the way for NYC’s current offerings of 2k and 3k. Brisport is also invested in reforming the family court and child protective services systems. His bill to reform SCR was signed into law in 2025, to combat false reporting to child protective services agencies.
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Julia Salazar
Julia Salazar is a State Senator representing District 18 in Brooklyn. In 2018, she defeated a longtime incumbent who was backed by corporate real estate, becoming the first member of the Democratic Socialists to serve in the state legislature in a century. She’s focused on organizing for housing justice, immigration protections, taxing the rich, and abolishing mass incarceration. Salazar successfully led the fight for Good Cause Eviction, Dignity Not Detention, and the HALT Solitary Confinement Act.
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Kristen Gonzalez
Kristen Gonzalez is a State Senator representing tri-borough District 59, including parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. As the Chair of both the Internet & Technology Committee and the Elections Committee in the State Senate, she has taken on tech oligarchs to pass some of the country’s strongest regulations on AI, data centers, and chatbots. She champions taxing the rich, protecting immigrant children from ICE, Public Power, gender-affirming care, safe streets, and tenants’ rights.
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Marcela Mitaynes
Marcela Mitaynes is a Peruvian immigrant and Assembly Member representing District 51 in Brooklyn. A former tenant organizer, she helped win the historic 2019 rent laws. Since entering the Assembly, she has fought alongside excluded workers to win the first-in-the-nation $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund, helped in the fight to pass the Build Public Renewables Act, and continues fighting for equity and stronger protections against SNAP skimming for working-class and immigrant communities.
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Phara Souffrant Forrest
Phara Souffrant Forrest is a nurse and Assembly Member representing District 57 in Brooklyn. She currently chairs the Assembly Task Force on New Americans, the only body in the legislature formally charged with supporting immigrant New Yorkers. Forrest has successfully led the fight to eliminate insulin co-pays and restrict the use of incarceration for technical violations. She organizes for healthcare justice, housing, and a New York that cares for working people.
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Sarahana Shrestha
Sarahana Shrestha was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her view of justice and democracy was shaped by bearing witness to uprisings for democracy, extreme poverty, and a subsequent civil war that lasted a decade. She believes public goods should be in public hands, and is the sponsor of the Hudson Valley Power Authority Act, legislation to replace an investor-owned utility with one that leverages public ownership to build a 21st century grid, lower utility costs, and empower workers.
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Shahana Hanif
Shahana Hanif is a City Council Member representing District 39 in Brooklyn. She is the first Bangladeshi and Muslim woman elected to the Council and the first woman to represent the District. Hanif chairs the inaugural Committee on Disabilities. During her three terms in office, she has championed major legislative reforms, including a citywide Immigrant Workers’ Bill of Rights and universal residential composting.
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Tiffany Cabán
Tiffany Cabán is a Queens native representing District 22 in the City Council. Before her election she worked as a public defender, an experience that left her committed to redefining how our city approaches public health and public safety. In the Council she has introduced legislation to strengthen workplace protections and hold corporations accountable and has passed bills that block ICE from operating on Rikers Island, protect abortion care, support survivors of domestic violence, and expand affordable childcare. She is co-chair of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is a democratic socialist, DSA member, and the Mayor of New York City. Before City Hall he represented Astoria in the State Assembly and helped lead NYC-DSA’s fight to tax the rich, expand social housing, and build working-class power across the five boroughs.
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