Experience and Qualifications
I’ve dedicated nearly two decades of my life to public service; as a U.S. Army National Guard Black Hawk pilot, FAA air traffic controller, volunteer firefighter, and union leader. I’ve served overseas and here at home, flying missions in support of our troops and allies while also helping manage the safety of some of the busiest airspace in the country at JFK Airport. Those experiences taught me leadership, accountability, and the importance of showing up when people are counting on you. I’m running for Congress to bring that same mission-driven mindset to Washington and fight for Long Island’s working families, veterans, first responders, small businesses, infrastructure, and future.
Community Involvement
Community service has always been a core part of who I am. Beyond my military and federal service, I’ve spent years volunteering as a firefighter in Copiague, responding to emergencies and helping neighbors. I’ve also been active in veterans’ advocacy and labor leadership, working to support working families, first responders, and fellow public servants both on and off the job. For me, leadership starts at the local level, showing up, listening, and giving back to the community that raised me.
Education
Dowling College: Bachelor's Aviation Managment, Aviation/Airway Management and Operations (May 2014)
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The three most important challenges facing our country are the erosion of the American middle class, our crumbling infrastructure, and the fragility of our democracy. On the economy, I will fight to pass the PRO Act, defend prevailing wage standards, and oppose any policy that favors corporations over working families. On infrastructure, I will champion a long-term transportation reauthorization with sustainable funding mechanisms and fight to reinstate the IRA energy tax credits that are keeping people working. On democracy, I will support the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and every measure that protects every American's right to vote.
The federal government has a critical responsibility to ensure that money in elections does not corrupt the democratic process or drown out the voices of everyday citizens. The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited, often anonymous corporate spending in our elections, fundamentally tilting the playing field toward wealthy special interests and away from working people.
That must be corrected. I support full transparency and disclosure requirements for all political spending, public financing options that empower small-dollar donors, and legislation that restores Congress's ability to regulate campaign finance in the public interest. Democracy should be driven by the voices of working Americans and not the checkbooks of billionaires and corporations.
I find it deeply troubling because it represents a serious blow to voting rights and fair representation across our nation. I hold with Justice Kagan as she pointed out in her dissent; for over a decade, this Court has had its sights set on the Voting Rights Act, and this decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter in the states where racial discrimination in voting remains most acute. The practical consequences are already unfolding as several southern states have initiated redistricting in the weeks following the decision, claiming their existing majority-minority districts are now unconstitutional under Callais. This is precisely the wrong direction. Every American deserves equal representation, and I am committed to supporting legislative action to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act in response to this decision.
In the new Congress we should be focusing on restoring the clean energy tax credits that were recklessly gutted, investing in resilient infrastructure, and pursuing an all-of-the-above energy strategy that aggressively grows renewable capacity while responsibly managing existing resources.
Addressing climate change is not at odds with protecting workers, done well, it is one of the greatest job-creation opportunities of our generation, and labor & working class people should be the ones building it.
The U.S. has a strategic interest and a moral responsibility to support the international institutions that underpin global stability and protect American workers and industries.
NATO remains the cornerstone of our collective security, and abandoning or undermining it emboldens adversaries, destabilizes alliances that have kept major power conflict at bay for eighty years, and ultimately threatens the stable global environment that American infrastructure and energy industries depend on.
The United Nations, despite its imperfections, provides an indispensable forum for diplomacy, humanitarian coordination, and conflict prevention that directly serves American economic and security interests.
Withdrawing from or weakening these institutions does not make America stronger so much a it creates a vacuum that China, Russia, and other adversaries are eager to fill. U.S. global leadership is not a burden; it is our greatest strategic asset, and one that working families depend on.
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