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.