Kristen Gonzalez
Kristen Gonzalez is a former tech worker and community organizer, born and raised in a working-class family in Queens. She represents District 59, covering parts of Western Queens, Northern Brooklyn and the East Side of Manhattan. She believes every New Yorker deserves to life a dignified life, which is why she champions workers’ rights, a Green New York, deeply affordable housing, and tenant protections.
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“On my New York Fights AI Data Centers statewide tour, I visited 13 existing or proposed data center sites. I met with New Yorkers in communities, just like East Fishkill, fighting to protect their environmental resources and their energy bills from massive data centers.”
(Official legislative newsroom (nysenate.gov)) “That’s why from a young age, she started fighting for a New York that works for all of us. When she got the opportunity to work at the Obama White House and in Senator Schumer’s office in D.C., she dropped out of college and moved for the opportunity to represent her community.”
(Campaign website (gonzalezforny.com)) “To win a better New York, we need an organized movement of people and leaders with real, on-the-ground organizing experience fighting for us.”
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