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Experience and Qualifications
Finance; Constituent Solutions at Bronx Borough President's office; Environmental Non-profit; Teacher
Community Involvement
Community organizer; tenant-rights advocate; Hip-Hop organizer
Education
Courtland has an A.A.S. in General Business from New York University
Party Endorsements
Stonewall Democrats, Alliance 4 New York Leadership
Campaign Phone
3479634682
Campaign Instagram
@peopleforcourtland
My top three priorities are housing, health, and affordable opportunity.
*Advance housing stability and affordable homeownership by strengthening tenant protections, expanding rent stabilization, supporting social housing and community land trusts, and improving code enforcement so that families are not forced into unsafe conditions or pushed out by speculation.
*Bring health care closer to where people live. In the South Bronx, asthma, diabetes, maternal and mental health, and hospital access are daily concerns. We need neighborhood-based preventive care, stronger hospital accountability, and better use of public buildings and partnerships to reach residents before a crisis hits.
*I will focus on education, jobs, and responsive constituent service. Schools should prepare young people for real-world careers, including union apprenticeships, health care, technology, public service, and the trades. An Assembly office should solve problems and treat every resident with dignity.
The most effective climate policies reduce emissions while improving daily life in the communities that have borne the heaviest burden. In the South Bronx, climate change is not abstract. It shows up as asthma, truck traffic, extreme heat, flooding, poor housing, and air pollution. I would support policies that accelerate clean public transportation, electrify truck and bus fleets, reduce last-mile freight pollution, expand green space, plant trees, and strengthen resilience to waterfront and stormwater impacts. New York should also create stronger incentives for green energy, including solar, battery storage, building electrification, and community-scale clean energy that lower costs and create local jobs. We should retrofit public housing, rent-regulated housing, schools, and public buildings without using climate policy as an excuse to raise rents or displace tenants. Climate investment should create jobs, lower utility costs, and improve health.
I will pursue policies that address the systems that perpetuate inequality in communities: housing, health care, education, wages, public safety, immigration enforcement, and political power. I support stronger tenant protections, expanded rent stabilization, community land trusts, and pathways to affordable homeownership. Displacement is one of the clearest ways in which inequalities persist in New York. I support universal, affordable health care and neighborhood-based care in areas where residents wait too long, travel too far, or go without preventive treatment. I will fight for equitable school funding, childcare, youth programs, and career pathways that connect young people to union jobs, health care, tech, public service, and the trades. I support raising wages, ending sub-minimum wages, enforcing labor laws, and protecting workers. I also support limiting local cooperation with civil immigration enforcement and ending public contracts that support detention.
After Louisiana v. Callais, New York should strengthen democracy at the state level. If federal voting-rights protections are narrowed, New York must protect its own voters. First, we should defend, fund, and enforce the New York John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, including protections against vote dilution, voter intimidation, language-access barriers, and discriminatory changes to elections. Second, redistricting must be transparent, community-driven, and accountable. Communities of interest should be protected, public input should matter, and maps should not be drawn to silence voters of color or to protect political insiders. Third, New York should expand voting access through automatic registration, easier registration updates, robust language access, more early voting sites, and protections against misinformation. When federal protections weaken, New York should lead.
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