ABOUT
I didn’t plan to run for Congress. A son of working-class immigrants, my goals were far less lofty: emulate my parents’ values of caring for your community and to try to make them proud.
For over twenty years, I’ve been chasing these goals. I've been working to support people everyday, building institutions that keep families together and people in their homes. It started at The Bronx Defenders, where I advocated for community members confronting housing instability, job insecurity, loss of public benefits and healthcare barriers. Every day I worked to undo the harm they were facing, every night I went to law school.
On their worst days, at their most vulnerable, I showed up and fought to ease their burden. I had a simple plan: do good work, navigate broken systems, and make life a little less difficult for the families who came through our doors.
And it worked. We kept countless families together and people in homes. We helped them access employment, food assistance, Medicaid, and other essential support.
Twenty years of building institutions, proving that innovative systems can serve people instead of grinding them down.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IS JUNE 23
HEre's Why I'm Running
I became a civil defense attorney because even as a child, I couldn’t understand why the legal system wasn’t fair, why outcomes were determined by the size of your wallet rather than what was right or just. In Harlem, I built a new model with the sole purpose of creating a system of representation and care, one that saw the whole person and worked to deliver impactful outcomes in every facet of their life. At Partners for Justice, I worked to scale that model nationally, across urban and rural cities, large and small states, and everywhere in between.
That work taught me two crucial things:
First, the government can work when it's built for people. When the right person understands how systems connect, where they break, and has the vision, skill, and determination to fix them. Second, building better systems from the inside only matters if they work for everyone and if no one is allowed to tear the whole thing down from the top.
I've represented families all over NY. The father who came to the U.S. as a child and built a life, now facing deportation for a decades-old indiscretion. The mother who called in a panic because her landlord padlocked her door. The teenager trapped in a legal system designed to criminalize poverty, not solve it.
THESE AREN'T POLICY DEBATES TO ME.
THEY IMPACT MY CLIENTS.
MY NEIGHBORS. MY COMMUNITY.
NY-07 doesn't need another politician with a resumé without results and ideological talking points. We need someone who has been in the room when ICE comes for a neighbor, when landlords try to unlawfully evict tenants, and when families are denied even basic food assistance.
For the last two decades, I’ve fought these battles and won. I’ve shown up when people had nowhere else to turn. I’ve built systems here in New York and across the country that actually protect families and I know how to scale that work in Congress.
I'm asking for your support because this moment demands more than rhetoric. It demands bold vision and real relief from broken systems. NY-07 deserves a representative ready to meet the moment and deliver.
