VOTE411 Voter Guide

1. Affordability & Accountability: Lower the cost of living for working families, seniors, renters, homeowners, and small businesses by cutting waste, improving transparency, increasing accountability measures, and opposing policies that unnecessarily raise taxes, fees, utility costs, or everyday expenses.

2. Public Safety & Quality of Life: Support effective policing, safer streets and transit, cleaner neighborhoods, and stronger infrastructure. I will prioritize flooding & sewer capacity, and faster responses to persistent quality-of-life concerns. Building smart & safe infrastructure is necessary to meet housing and community demand.

3. Education & Economic Opportunity: Strengthen public schools and expand access to vocational education, CTE, apprenticeships, internships, career development services, and pathways to good-paying jobs so students have multiple routes to success.

New York should prioritize practical investments that both reduce emissions and protect communities from the effects of climate change. This district has been devastated by recent flooding. That means modernizing aging sewer and stormwater systems, improving flood mitigation and coastal protections, strengthening the electrical grid, and building more resilient transportation and infrastructure.

We should also invest in planting and maintaining more trees, expanding green spaces, and increasing natural stormwater absorption, especially in neighborhoods vulnerable to flooding and extreme heat. Cleaner and more reliable energy, energy efficiency, and modern infrastructure should also be part of the solution.

Climate policy should produce measurable results while remaining affordable for working families and small businesses. We need to build smarter and safer, protect our neighborhoods from future extreme weather, and ensure environmental investments improve residents’ quality of life.

I believe social and racial justice begins with equal treatment under the law, equal access to opportunity, and removing barriers that prevent people from succeeding. I would support strong enforcement of civil rights and anti-discrimination laws in housing, employment, education, and public services.

I would also focus on expanding opportunity for families and communities that have historically lacked investment. That means strengthening schools, expanding vocational education, apprenticeships, career-development services, and pathways into stable, good-paying jobs. I would support small-business resources, affordable housing opportunities, safe neighborhoods, and programs that help families build long-term economic security.

Government should ensure that opportunity is not determined by race, ethnicity, income, or ZIP code. My goal is to promote upward mobility, protect individual rights, and give every New Yorker a fair chance to build a career, support a family, and succeed.

New York should respond by protecting equal access to the ballot while ensuring that our election laws and redistricting process remain constitutional. I would support protections against voter intimidation and discrimination, adequate polling locations, language assistance, and accessible voting for every eligible New Yorker.

Redistricting should be transparent, based on legitimate and consistent criteria, and designed to keep communities together rather than protect political parties or incumbents. Regardless of changes in federal law, New York should continue protecting every citizen’s right to participate in elections and have their vote fairly counted.

My top three priorities are rooted in the direct needs of Woodside, Maspeth, Elmhurst, and parts of Jackson Heights:

1. Tackling the Affordability Crisis: We must protect tenants and homeowners alike. I will advocate for funding Mitchell-Lama housing, work to make it easier for first-time homebuyers, and help scale up our housing supply.

2. Funding Great Schools: Our district’s public schools helped put me and so many of my peers on a track for success. I am committed to securing full funding for our public schools, expanding after-school care and early childcare programs, and making sure we educate the next generation to have even more opportunities than those who came before.

3. Protecting Immigrant Neighbors: Our neighborhoods have been a new home for immigrants for over a hundred years, and maintaining this welcoming climate to immigrants and newcomers is core to our being. The current administration’s heavy-handed enforcement of immigration policy is stifling activity in our

In western Queens, climate change isn't an abstract future threat, it is a current crisis causing severe flooding in our basements and streets.

To address the damage and prevent future loss, New York State must aggressively fund local infrastructure upgrades. We need to expand our tree canopies to combat urban heat island effects and significantly upgrade our aging sewer and drainage systems to handle flash flooding.

Furthermore, we must fully realize the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) by rapidly scaling up our clean energy grid. Transitioning to renewable energy must be paired with robust investments in green union jobs, ensuring that working-class communities and immigrant neighborhoods aren't left behind, but are instead the primary beneficiaries of the new green economy.

Promoting social and racial justice means building a New York where every neighbor (regardless of race, background, or immigration status) can thrive. My campaign is deeply committed to supporting our diverse immigrant and LGBTQIA+ communities.

First, true equity begins with economic stability; I will advocate for deeply affordable housing and strict labor protections to ensure corporate interests do not exploit working-class communities of color.

Second, we must secure equitable, full funding for public schools in historically underserved districts, expanding access to language translation services and early education.

Finally, I support strengthening small-donor public financing for elections to amplify everyday community voices, ensuring that working-class New Yorkers have a direct say in our democracy over special interest groups and big-money donors.

The Supreme Court's decisions surrounding voting maps underscore why New York must remain a national leader in protecting voting rights and ensuring fair representation. In light of federal shifts, New York State must double down on protecting the rights of marginalized groups and maintaining competitive, contiguous districts that truly represent our communities.

We must aggressively defend and strengthen the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York. This ensures our legislative lines are never drawn to dilute the power of underrepresented voters or discourage fair political competition.

Additionally, we need to ensure our state’s Independent Redistricting Commission functions with absolute transparency and remains insulated from partisan gerrymandering, establishing a gold standard for a reflective, fair, and accessible democracy.