I’m the son of Colombian immigrants. I was born in a basement apartment and raised in NYCHA, and like too many families here, I’ve known what it’s like to face housing insecurity at a young age. I’ve watched our neighbors be surveilled by the NYPD, torn apart by ICE, and left behind during Hurricane Ida, which our government was never prepared to meet. For decades, the powerful have disinvested from our neighborhoods and treated our people as expendable. The status quo has always made room for the wealthy but rarely for working-class New Yorkers like us.
I’m running because I believe Queens deserves so much more.
I believe in a Queens where every family has a real chance to thrive, not just survive. Where no child goes to school hungry or without a home. Where you can walk to work or send your kids to school safely. Where workers earn a living wage, pay the rent, and still have time and dignity left at the end of the day. A Queens where we invest in people, not in endless war and genocide in Gaza and abroad. A Queens where working people have the power to organize, to shape their future, and to build a New York that works for all of us.
Our district has transformed since the days I grew up here and I’m ready to help lead it into its next chapter.
As your Assembly Member for Astoria, Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Woodside, I will fight every single day to organize with our community, pass bold legislation, and make New York truly affordable, livable, and just.
Because when we invest in each other, there is nothing our community cannot do.
