COMMUNITY

Community advocacy means showing up when something needs to change. My work has ranged from education and youth advocacy to quality-of-life issues affecting my neighborhood—organizing, speaking up, and working directly with city leadership to get results.

NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCACY

My advocacy has been rooted in turning frustration into action—organizing neighbors, creating awareness, confronting quality-of-life issues, engaging city agencies and pushing for lasting solutions.

Sometimes leadership starts with a title. Sometimes it starts with a flyer.

GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY

Faced with a persistent rat and sanitation problem in my neighborhood, I began organizing—creating flyers, connecting with neighbors, cleaning problem areas, documenting conditions, and pushing city agencies for solutions.

An informational poster promoting trash disposal and feeding rats to prevent rats in NYC. Contains a trash can overflowing with garbage, a pizza box and cans on the floor, and rats. Features a QR code for more information and a message encouraging NYC to be clean and rat-free.
Piles of trash bags filled with garbage next to a brick wall, some bags are transparent showing contents like paper and plastic, with sunlight creating a glare on the image.

Flyers used to raise awareness and mobilize the neighborhood.

Two people standing on a sidewalk near a pile of black garbage bags and other trash bags filled with waste, in front of a row of closed metal shutters on a brick building.

Overflowing garbage had become a regular sight.

Nighttime city sidewalk with a row of black trash cans lined up against a brick building, illuminated by exterior lights.

In 2023, I brought NYC’s Rat Czar directly to the neighborhood.

WATCH THE FULL JOURNEY

By 2024–2025, regular pickups and improved waste management helped transform the block.

CIVIC LEADERSHIP

Bronx Community Board 1
Chair, Education & Youth Committee

Photo of a virtual meeting showing multiple people in different locations on a video conference call, with a mix of men and women engaged in discussion.
A group of diverse people sitting around conference tables in a meeting room, with some engaged in discussion and others listening, seen through a split-screen video call showing an indoor setting outside a store at night.
A man with dreadlocks wearing a brown shirt and beige pants giving advice during a presentation. He is holding a face mask in one hand and gesturing with the other. The setting appears to be indoors with a brick and plain wall backdrop. The word "ADVICE" is overlaid on the image.

Anti-Gun Violence Summit | 2024
Speaking on leadership, education, and the responsibility to serve.