Meet our slate for Central Brooklyn

Diego has been part of NYC-DSA since October of 2024. He's from Colombia and works in the tech sector, and seeks to utilize his free time and energy in making DSA a successful project. He has been involved in canvassing for the Zohran campaign as well as part of multiple protest coalitions for Palestine liberation and the end of genocide, including participation with No Tech for Apartheid. Additionally, he takes it upon himself to onboard new members where they are to try to make their DSA participation a better experience.

Blessie is a recent graduate, where she helped bargain a contract with other college residential life staff through UFCW Local 1459. She currently works with high-school students through an education non-profit but as a a rank-and-file advocate, is hoping to go into public school teaching. She has primarily been involved with the Membership Committee, helping with one-on-one onboarding and hosting Coffees with Comrades sessions! She also organizes with the Community Solidarity Committee and does labor solidarity work within the Break the Chain campaign.”

Niko is a CBK member, anti-imperialist, and abolitionist. He has served on the Citywide Political Education Committee Organizing Committee, the CBK Organizing Committee, and as the Co-Chair for the International Committee Europe Division. He also organizes in the CBK Community Solidarity Committee and volunteered as a Field Lead for the Zohran campaign. Vote for him if you hate Zoom meetings and want lots of branch socials.

Ronit has been around the block! She's served on the Steering Committee, the Citywide Leadership Committee, and the Central Brooklyn Organizing Committee. She's currently in her electoral era on Eon Huntley's kitchen cabinet. In addition to leading the initiative to open a Brooklyn DSA office, she has focused on Palestine liberation and community solidarity in DSA. She is a tech worker and anti-war veteran, and in her free time reviews perfumes on social media.

Landry work with the CBK Community Solidarity Committee to build DSA's relationship to neighborhood-based organizations. Previously, they have served on the CBK Organizing Committee, as well as on the Citywide Leadership Committee. They are a tenant organizer with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, fighting displacement with their neighbors. Previously, they organized at work on their union's bargaining committee as members of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. In their years in NYC-DSA, they have organized with the political education committee, the Socialist Feminist working group, and the Red Sprouts Childcare Collective.

Michael has lived in Bed-Stuy for over 10 years, works for a nonprofit that sues landlords for violating tenants' rights, and is on the leadership committee of his neighborhood community garden. He serves on the Organizing Committees of the Tenant Organizing Working Group, the CBK Community Solidary Committee, and Break the Chain campaign. He is a member of the kitchen cabinet for Eon Huntley's campaign for State Assembly. His skills include picking restaurants, being really good at trivia, and rolling perfect joints every time.

Marina works as a therapist and clinical researcher at Brooklyn College’s Immigrant Student Success Office and is a proud member of CUNY PSC. Marina served on Zohran’s policy team, and is currently a member of the NYC-DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group OC, where she started and co-leads the KYR, court watching, and rapid response training programs. Marina is also currently an alt for CLC.

Nikhil joined DSA in 2016, as part of a group that revised the chapter's constitution and bylaws. He's a proud public sector lawyer and union member who formerly served as a local president. He's worked at local and national levels on policy platforms and campaigns around labor, ecosocialism, economics, and debt/finance as well as electoral and international solidarity campaigns. He's been an OC member of the ecosocialist working group and a CLC alternate, served on national convention committees, and has attended most post-2016 local and national conventions.