District 48 deserves better.

Why I’m Running

I’m a born-and-raised New Yorker and the daughter of immigrants. My mother, a former teacher, stayed home to raise us while my father drove a yellow cab for over twelve hours a day. Their sacrifice—and the support of my community—made me who I am today.

That community started in South Brooklyn. I went from P.S. 95 in Gravesend to Bay Academy in Sheepshead Bay, then Stuyvesant High School, before earning a Political Science degree from Yale. 

I was lucky enough to chase the American Dream—but for too many, that dream is slipping away. Skyrocketing costs, shrinking opportunities, and failing systems have left working-class families struggling to get by. 

I’m running for office because we need a New York where opportunity isn’t a privilege, but a promise. A city where every family has a safe home, enough to eat, good schools for their children, quality healthcare so they can see a doctor when they are sick –  conditions that provide a real shot at success so that they can go on to work hard and pursue careers that will lift themselves and their communities out of poverty, to build a happy and healthy life.