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Experience and Qualifications
Hands Off NYC (2025- present), Cooper Square Committee (2022 - Present), St.Marks Place Institute for Mental Health (2020-2022), Bellevue Educare (2016- 2019)
Community Involvement
Illapa is a local tenant organizer who helps renters build tenant associations, pressure landlords into delivering the repairs they need, and activates new organizers into the housing movement. He's also an organizer with the This Land is Ours Community Land Trust (CLT), which fights for CLTs in Lower Manhattan. He's actively organized against ICE by leading Know Your Rights trainings, growing local networks against them, and supporting with community leaders at schools.
Education
MSW from NYU
Campaign Instagram
instagram.com/illapanyc
1. Making the wealthy pay their fair share to fund services like free childcare
2. Having New York State build and own affordable housing directly
3. Protecting our neighbors from federal overreach, especially from ICE
I want to lower New Yorkers' utility bills by making the state actually follow through on the Build Public Renewables Act, a climate law that's already passed but the governor has not implemented. It requires New York State to calculate how much renewable energy we need each year to hit our 70% clean electricity goal by 2030, and then build that much cheap, publicly-owned renewable energy. In Albany, I'll fight every budget cycle to get more public funding to build it faster.
My campaign priorities all have a social and racial dimension. We seek massive redistribution of wealth and removing fundamental human needs like child care and housing from the failing market economy. Policies like free universal childcare and making NYS directly compete with the private sector to build more social/public housing will benefit everyone, but especially poor, black and/or brown New Yorkers.
The VRA "was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers", as Justice Kagan wrote, and the NYS legislature should do everything it can to protect the civil rights organizers fought long and hard to win. Ultimately, the way forward is proportional representation, and New York should lead by implementing it here.
