Alexa Avilés is a lifelong Brooklynite, a proud Boricua mom, and a legislator with a proven track record for making New York more affordable and safer for working families. Her story is that of so many in District 10.

In her first four years in the New York City Council, Alexa has served as primary sponsor for 46 different pieces of legislation. She has delivered time and time again for her community, making our streets safer, our air cleaner and making it easier for our neighbors to stay in their homes.

Alexa has been doing the work for decades.

Avilés’s career spanned almost three decades in the not-for-profit and social justice philanthropic sectors, where she worked to protect human rights, autonomy, and dignity of all people. She supported state and national efforts to reduce the incarceration of juveniles and adults, fought discrimination across multiple government systems, and supported the empowerment of marginalized communities.

She served as the PS 172 PTA president for a decade, was a member of her local Community Board 7, served as a Parent Representative of the M.S. 88 School Leadership Team, and chaired the New York City Youth Board. She is also a member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, and volunteered both as the Chair of the Personnel and Internal Budget Committee and as Vice-Chair of the Youth and Education Committee on Brooklyn Community Board 7.

While other politicians remained silent in the face of American support for genocide abroad, or even support the mass death of innocent civilians, Alexa called for a ceasefire in Gaza back in 2023. 

Alexa is a principled leader with a strong moral compass, laser focus on common sense solutions for our City and Nation. A Latina, a mother, and wife of a TWU worker, she knows the struggles of working class New Yorkers and immigrant New Yorkers.

Simply put, there is no one better suited to fight and win for New Yorkers than Alexa Avilés.