Meet our slate for Lower Manhattan

Alina is a member of the LowMan Branch, originally from Bashkortostan, Russia. She used to work in the corporate sphere for over a decade but is now a full time student getting her masters in Social Work from Fordham University. She would love to work with the immigrant population. In her free time, she loves watching movies (Rise of the Planet of the Apes fans rise up!), reading leftist (and nonleftist books), gaming, and fighting for animal liberation.

Peter is a member of the LowMan Branch and has been active in DSA since last year. Originally from Long Island, he’s been a longtime resident of NYC and has spent most of his life living in Chelsea. He is on the Outreach Committee in DSA’s Liberation Caucus, and is committed to bringing his theoretical principles and organizing history to his branch and NYC DSA!

Giovanetta Marangoz is a member of the Lower Manhattan branch. She is co-chair of NYC-YDSA and is a student of psychology and women & gender studies at CUNY.

Giovanetta worked for NYPIRG, the New York Public Interest Research Group as a campus lead for the higher education campaign, overlooked NYC-YDSA's Students for Zohran, and partners with NYCBCAP to make birth control accessible on CUNY campuses. She is organizing to make NYC-DSA into the connection between community-focused organizing and building socialist power and currently on the Youth International Committee.

Matt is a member of the Lower Manhattan branch. He is a former union shop steward and the proud son of two teachers.

He is a member of the LowMan CSC building local connections as part of Socialism is the People, and serves on the OC of the Anti-War Working Group.