Meet our slate for North Brooklyn

Sammy serves on the Organizing Committee for the Break the Chain campaign for an arms embargo. They are a communist and anti-imperialist who proudly took part in the student intifada and have been organizing for racial justice, demilitarization, and queer and trans rights since their teenage years. They are probably the first struggling writer with a septum piercing ever to move to Bushwick.

Rob has proudly served three terms as NBK OC and two terms as CLC. Rob is a graduate student in childhood education at Hunter College and a founding member and officer of the NBK Community Solidarity Committee. Since joining DSA in 2018, he has been a field lead for Zohran '25, Claire '24, & Brandon '21; treasurer for Jabari '22/'24; comms/field for Defund & Racial Justice WG; and the treasurer for Tax the Rich '21.

April was a field lead for Zohran's campaign in Ridgewood and Bed-Stuy. Before moving to NYC, she served two terms as Labor Working Group chair in Olympia DSA and was Field Director for the Robert Vanderpool and Caleb Gieger campaigns for Olympia City Council. She is currently a MA student at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Isaac is a North Brooklyn Community Solidarity Committee organizer. He has worked as a grassroots organizer since 2020, mostly informally. His efforts in 2020 are documented by filmmaker Shawn Batey in the WE KEEP US SAFE docuseries. Isaac works for a public defender nonprofit. He is a proud rank-and-file member of ALAA.

Isaac is also an aspiring music producer.

Robert is an NBK member who has previously served on the Immigrant Justice Working Group Organizing Committee, the Red Rabbits Admin Committee, and as the NBK Branch Rep to the Citywide Leadership Committee. He is the artistic talent behind Brick x Brick’s visuals, and has contributed design work to the Union Power campaign, Illapa’s run for AD65, the Defund campaign, Stop Cop City NYC, EWOC and various Anti-War Working Group events and actions.

Pedro-Andres is a member of the North Brooklyn branch of Puerto-Rican descent. He works as a fundraiser for the ACLU. Pedro-Andres volunteered as a field lead for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in North Brooklyn.

Charlotte was a founding co-chair of the North Brooklyn branch in 2017 and has been hanging around since, most recently as a field lead for Zohran in Ridgewood. They spent over a decade working in childcare and the service industry but now work in documentary film. Charlotte first came to socialism through feminism and believes neither is possible without the other.

Brian is a member of North Brooklyn DSA, where he’s entering his second term as an officer on the NBK Community Solidarity Committee. He came to DSA in October 2023 to get connected to direct actions for Palestine and quickly found an organizing home in the Anti-War Working Group, where he learned to link class struggle to Palestinian liberation in everyday life. In his free time, Brian likes to hang out with his cat, play the bass guitar, and root for Philly sports teams.