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Protect freedoms • Lower costs • Government that works
A future planned for your family with care — not chaos or political gridlock.
Independent for Congress, NY-12
I’m a lifelong public servant who’s spent my career protecting people in life’s hardest moments—and building the rules that prevent those moments in the first place.
I’ve supported youth and families in crisis, survivors of domestic violence, immigrants, and seniors navigating healthcare, housing, and the courts. I taught myself to code to help modernize justice systems so people can actually access the rule of law.
Now, as AI and new technologies reshape jobs and schools, I help write and enforce the guardrails—so decisions aren’t made about us without us.
I’m running to bring people back into the decisions and deliver a government that works: protect freedoms, lower costs, and plan ahead.
What’s failing isn’t just politics — it’s the systems people depend on.
What’s failing isn’t just politics — it’s the systems people depend on.
You feel it when corruption goes unpunished, when costs outrun wages, when healthcare and immigration strain families, when schools can’t keep up with an AI-shaped world, and when technology changes work without guardrails or consent.
For 15+ years, I’ve worked where those failures hit hardest — and where the rules get written. From detention centers, courts, healthcare, housing, and schools to state and federal work on AI, labor, and consumer protection, I’ve built enforceable guardrails and coalitions that hold under pressure.
That’s not politics as usual.
That’s how we build a Fair Future.
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NY-12 is where America’s biggest systems sit side by side: world-class hospitals, global finance, top universities, and labs, iconic arts institutions, tech innovation, and one of the nation’s largest public school systems.
The Fair Future Agenda is how we rebuild together.
End self-dealing. Ban stock trading. Close pay-to-play loopholes. Enforce real penalties for corruption.
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
Pass a real ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks (not “disclosure-only” theater), and tighten the rules around gifts, dark money, and revolving-door lobbying.
What’s Stuck:
Leadership gatekeeping, carve-outs, and lobbyist-friendly loopholes, because too many people benefit from the current incentives. Multiple proposals exist, but momentum repeatedly stalls when it threatens real power.
How We Pass It:
Make corruption politically expensive and boring to defend. I can work with Congress to publish a simple “who profits” tracker, build cross-partisan co-sponsors, and run constant district-level pressure (town halls + earned media + coalition letters).
Guardrails for high-risk AI. Transparency for automated decisions. Independent testing. Accountability when AI harms people.
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
A federal AI safety framework for high-risk uses (employment, housing, credit, education, health, and government services): required impact assessments, independent testing, and clear liability when systems discriminate or cause harm. Build on proven standards work like NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework and turn it into enforceable rules.
What’s Stuck:
Tech lobbying and a deregulation agenda by the current administration is ushering innovation with no guardrails and have also weakened states’ ability to develop their own. Even narrower efforts (like expanding testing/evaluation infrastructure through bills such as the TEST AI Act) move slowly and don’t yet add up to a full safety regime.
How We Pass It:
Create “proof-based policy”: public hearings with workers and small businesses harmed by opaque AI, plus technical reality-checking from independent researchers and not just industry. Then pass a targeted first package (high-risk AI rules + testing) and lock in iterative updates, the way we handle aviation or food safety.
Invest in parks + public space, expand arts/cultural access, and scale public safety approaches that reduce violence and build trust (not just more low-level enforcement).
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
A proven public safety mix: community violence intervention (credible messengers + trauma response) + focused deterrence for the small number driving serious violence + non-police crisis response for mental health/substance calls. Measure success by fewer shootings, fewer repeat victims, and higher community trust, not arrest counts.
What’s Stuck:
The country keeps funding “more enforcement”, especially with ICE and use of national guard as the default while the approaches that actually prevent harm stay trapped in short-term pilots, fragmented budgets, and political backlash. Congress talks safety, but incentives are scattered and accountability/trust outcomes aren’t required.
How We Pass It:
Lock in stable federal funding for community violence intervention and crisis response with clear outcome metrics and transparency guardrails, so programs survive election cycles. Then create standing local “safety councils” (residents, schools, outreach, clinicians, small businesses, precinct leadership) to set priorities, review results, and keep strategies tailored to each neighborhood.
We need to increase wages for workers and stop wage theft in all its forms. We also need to rein in workplace surveillance. Protect organizing. Modernize labor standards for gig + contracted work.
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
Modern labor rights that match the modern economy: protect organizing (including PRO-style reforms), curb “bossware” and algorithmic management abuses, and make wage theft enforcement real. Workers shouldn’t need a law degree to get paid fairly or to challenge automated decisions at work.
What’s Stuck:
Big-money opposition frames basic worker power as “anti-business,” and Congress stays trapped between corporate lobbying and partisan identity fights. Meanwhile, misclassification and subcontracting keep expanding, and enforcement capacity doesn’t match the scale of the problem.
How We Pass It:
Build a worker-led coalition that’s broad and local: unions, freelancers, small business owners who are sick of unfair competition, and professionals facing algorithmic management. Hold “Workplace Reality” hearings in-district, then bring those cases to DC to force votes on concrete reforms.
Literacy + math that actually sticks. Career-connected learning tied to industrial policy. Strong community colleges + technical schools. Paid pathways into good jobs. Arts + civics as essentials, not extras.
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
A jobs-and-skills strategy that matches where the economy is going: pair research + industrial policy with worker-led planning so we train for real demand (advanced manufacturing, clean energy, health care, construction, cybersecurity, AI-adjacent roles, skilled trades). Build “learn-and-earn” pathways through community colleges, CTE high schools, union apprenticeships, and technical institutes so a young person (or mid-career worker) can see a clear on-ramp to a good job without drowning in debt.
What’s Stuck:
We keep funding education like it’s disconnected from the labor market; while employers complain about shortages and workers get stuck in training that doesn’t convert to wages. K–12 gets whiplash from reforms that don’t reach classrooms, community colleges are under-resourced, and too many “workforce” programs become short-term grants without stable pipelines or wraparound support (childcare, transit, advising).
How We Pass It:
Support a policy framework for talent councils that can serve as standing tables of community colleges, universities, unions, startups, employers, workforce orgs, and workers themselves, meeting quarterly with published targets (credential-to-job placement, wage gains, employer commitments). Tie federal dollars to outcomes that matter (paid apprenticeships, guaranteed interviews, credit transfer, job placement), and bring it home through regular school partnerships: modern CTE labs, dual enrollment, and real career exposure starting in middle and high school.
Build more housing (including deeply affordable). Cut red tape that blocks supply. Protect renters and stabilize neighborhoods. Expand first-time buyer pathways and lower healthcare costs as a core affordability issue.
What’s stuck
how we pass it
What I’ll Fight For:
A real “cost-of-living” agenda: more homes across types (including modular/manufactured), smarter financing and preservation tools, and tenant protections, paired with a public-option style path to universal coverage that drives prices down and guarantees coverage without Medicare for All.
What’s Stuck:
Housing gets trapped in local veto points and outdated rules while speculation and high rates price people out; even bipartisan supply packages stall before they become law. Healthcare is the same story: powerful middlemen and fragmented rules keep costs high, and Washington argues about slogans instead of lowering premiums, deductibles, and drug prices.
How We Pass It:
Build a bipartisan “affordability coalition” that doesn’t sell out stability renters, first-time buyers, seniors, small landlords, unions, healthcare providers, and pro-housing advocates, around a paired deal: more homes + anti-displacement protections + universal-coverage steps that lower costs. Then publish district-level “cost of inaction” receipts (rent hikes, ER bills, delayed care) and use constant public accountability, town halls, scorecards, and local partners, to keep the pressure on until it passes.
Host a small gathering in your home or building for open, honest conversation about the future of our district; what’s working, what’s not, and what leadership should look like next.
Whether you have an hour here and there or want to take on a leadership role in your neighborhood, there’s a place for you in this campaign.
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