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Experience and Qualifications
Teacher @ PS111, Constituent Liaison for State Senate / Assembly, Outreach Specialist for Urban Health Plan Community Outreach Office, Program Manager at Time Television
Community Involvement
I have been fighting for democracy, representation and equity for all my neighbors in Astoria & LIC since 2001. Empty luxury housing has displaced real people from lifelong homes. Astoria & LIC have world-class health facilities but limited access for our neighbors. As a mom of 3 & teacher, I fight for education equity and clean, affordable & safe transit. I support safer neighborhoods via investment in real community resources - housing, job training, mental health.
Education
MA Education, NYU 2025 BS Media & Comms, NYU 2012 LaGuardia CC.
Campaign Instagram
instagram.com/maryjobaida
#1: Housing
#2: Healthcare
#3: Education Inequality / Childcare
Astoria and Long Island City regularly experience flooding streets, home basements, and subway stations. But life and property damaging flooding already impacts Astoria and LIC.
Mary will build District 36’s climate resiliency, supporting:
- Upgrades to NYC's sewer system
- Climate-resilient infrastructure, including rain gardens and green roofs that slow water runoff and absorb excess stormwater
Mary champions a community-centered approach to justice. She does not believe in punitive systems – Especially when we know that many interactions with law enforcement and the justice system are the result of targeting, racial bias, and systemic barriers to accessing basic needs. Youth and young adults living in poverty are unfairly penalized by incarceration instead of being given the support they need to thrive.
Mary will fight to end the criminalization of poverty by:
- Expanding mental health support and youth services
Approve funding for exclusive mental health hotline over than armed response
- Fundiing restorative justice and diversion programs where the responsible parties remain in community and are creatively healed accountable for damages
- Humane prison-diversion programs that focus on prevention, healing, and keeping families and neighborhoods safe, not incarceration except in case of violent crimes.
The actions of the Supreme Court in Louisiana v Callais fly in the face of the entire Civil Rights movement, and the hard-won, ongoing battle for proportional representation that differentiates states with minority groups from plantations with a ruling class and a subordinate class with only token representation.
I can think of no more urgent cause than for New York to fight back, not unilaterally disarming. I am encouraged to see that national Democrats have finally gotten serious about beating Republicans at their own game. But staring down a fascist majority on the Supreme Court decades into the future, New York must also create its own protections and pursue creative compacts with like-minded states to counter the damage Republican legislatures are doing with every means available.
Experience and Qualifications
Diana Moreno has spent years organizing alongside working families in Queens, fighting for tenants’ rights, immigrant communities, labor protections, and affordable housing. Before serving in the Assembly, she worked as a union organizer and community advocate, including with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), helping connect residents with resources and build collective power around issues affecting Astoria and Long Island City. As Assemblymember, she continues to work closely with local organizations, schools, small businesses, labor unions, and community groups across the district.
Community Involvement
Diana Moreno has spent years organizing alongside working families in Queens, fighting for tenants’ rights, immigrant communities, labor protections, and affordable housing. Before serving in the Assembly, she worked as a union organizer and community advocate, helping connect residents with resources and build collective power around issues affecting Astoria and Long Island City. As Assemblymember, she continues to work closely with local organizations, schools, small businesses, labor unions,
Education
Bachelors of Arts, Political Science; Latin American. University of Florida
Party Endorsements
Democrat, Working Families Party
Campaign Phone
(929)359-3489
Campaign Instagram
dianaforqueens
Campaign YouTube
If elected, my top priorities will be making New York more affordable for working families, protecting immigrant communities, and delivering universal childcare. That includes fighting for deeply affordable housing, stronger tenant protections, fair taxes on the wealthy, and investments that allow families to stay and thrive in the communities they helped build.
New York must treat climate change as both an environmental and affordability issue. We need major investments in resilient infrastructure, renewable energy, public transit, and green housing retrofits while creating good union jobs in the process.
In Queens, we are already seeing the impacts of climate change through flooding and extreme heat, so we also need stronger protections for vulnerable neighborhoods, including coastal resilience and storm mitigation projects. I also support expanding renewable energy through public investment and shutting down polluting peaker plants that harm working-class communities.
I will continue fighting for policies that make New York more affordable and equitable for working people, immigrants, and historically underserved communities. That includes protecting tenants, strengthening labor rights, investing in public education and universal childcare, defending immigrant communities, expanding access to healthcare, and ensuring wealthy corporations and the ultra-rich pay their fair share. I support passing New York For All to end New York State’s cooperation with ICE and better protect immigrant families. I also believe we must continue addressing racial inequities in housing, education, healthcare, environmental policy, and the criminal legal system.
This is a serious attack on our voting rights and fair representation by an increasingly authoritarian administration.
New York should strengthen protections for voters at the state level by expanding ballot access, protecting language access for immigrant communities, and investing in voter education and participation.
We must also continue fighting to ensure Black, Latino, Asian, immigrant, and historically disenfranchised communities have fair representation and full access to our democracy.
