Successful Campaigns

  • Worked with disability advocates and wheelchair consumers to pass a bill establishing a Task Force to develop recommendations to address wheelchair repair and service - appointed by Senate Chair of Human Services to Chair the Task Force.

  • Lobbied for Common Cause in CT and helped to pass the CT Voting Rights Act, Early Voting and No Excuse Absentee Ballots.

  • Lobbied with CT AFL CIO and State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition on improvements to paid family leave and establishing racial equity guidelines for the state workforce respectively.

  • Worked with partners in the union building trades to build a casino in East Windsor, CT and in Massachussetts.

  • Worked with Yale Law Clinics and rideshare drivers affiliated with CT Drivers United on a bill to improve wages, transparency and reciprocity between states for rideshare drivers in CT.

  • Worked with Yale Law Clinic and advocates for smart justice to successfuly pass a bill to ensure that people leaving incarceration have ID’s allowing for an improved transition from incarceration.

  • Legislative and policy support for Equality CT, Connecticut’s new and expanding statewide LGBTQIA+ Advocacy organization.

  • As Director of Citizens for Economic Opportunity, a coalition of labor and community groups founded by UAW Region 9A in the early 2000’s, led Labor for Universal Healthcare Fight for a healthcare public option.

  • Helped to pass marriage equality in CT as an Executive Board Member Love Makes a Family.

  • Collaboratively Led Fight to End Sexual Harassment of Female Corrections Officers employed by CT DOC.

  • Political and Legislative Support of New Union Organizing at Columbia University, UConn, Harvard, Worcester Polytech, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, and Foxwoods Casino.

  • Developed and implemented UAW Region 9A manufacturing table to facilitate cross-pollination of resources, knowledge and skills.

  • Campaign to Ban Smoking at Casinos – passed in State Senate.

  • Helped to pass UConn Grad and Post-Doc Worker Contracts in State Legislature.

  • Collaboration with former State Comptroller to establish unique healthcare option for student workers at UCONN – well known for its quality and affordability by grad student workers across the country.