Shawn Hill, Harlem Community Activist and Cofounder of The Greater Harlem Coalition (GHC)
Shawn analyzes FOIL data that GHC has requested from New York State and City agencies. The resulting maps, graphs, and other visualizations help Harlem residents, and small business owners see how decades of bureaucratic and political decision-making have resulted in many health and quality-of-life disparities we experience daily.
Keith Wright
Served in the New York State Assembly from 1993 to 2016
Assemblyman Wright served in the New York State Assembly from 1993 to 2016 as leader in the State Democratic Party and as chair of the New York State Assembly Housing Committee. During his tenure in the Assembly, he chaired key committees in the Assembly including those related to election law, social services, and labor.
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney
Avlin Bragg is a civil rights lawyer, former federal prosecutor, and politician from Harlem. In an interview with The American Prospect, Bragg noted that he had been “deeply affected by the criminal justice system – most directly through three gunpoint stops by the NYPD.” He graduated from Trinity School before attending Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1995 and earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Olufunmilola Obe , Commanding Officer at Manhattan North
Olufunmilola Obe is a commanding officer at Manhattan North and is one of the highest ranking black women on the force. She works on community and neighborhood policing, street safety, gun violence, probation, and crime in general, and the oversaturation of rehab clinics.
Cordell Cleare, New York State Senator
Cordell Cleare is an American activist and politician from Harlem. She has been a member of the Democratic Party since the late 1990s. She is currently the state-senator for New York's 30th State Senate district.
Kristin Richardson Jordan
Kristin Richardson Jordan is an American politician who was the Council member for New York City's 9th City Council district from 2022 to 2024. Jordan identifies as a democratic socialist and police abolitionist. In her 2021 race for the New York City Council, she campaigned on a platform of "radical love."