Successful Campaigns
Secured $5 million dollars in the 2025-2027 Biennium State Budget for CT Alliance Against Sexual Violence and the CT Children’s Alliance.
With UCHC AAUP, worked to preserve state funding for the University of CT Health Center as CT’s only public hospital including engaging legislators and Executive Branch leaders in educational forums and discussions about the value of UCHC and the drastic cuts being delivered by the current Administration.
Worked with disability advocates and wheelchair consumers to pass a bill establishing a Task Force, in which I was the Chair, to develop recommendations to address wheelchair repair and service - appointed by Senate Chair of Human Services to Chair the Task Force.
Worked with Common Cause in CT to pass the CT Voting Rights Act, Implement Early Voting, Codify the implementation of No Excuse Absentee Ballot, eliminate prospect of CT being used to hold an Article V Constitutional Convention, and with leadership in the House and Senate on both sides of the aisle crafted compromise language for appointing SEEC Executive Director position.
With Equality CT in 2025, passed a bill establishing a bill of rights for LGBTQ+ seniors living in long term care.
With the CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence in 2024 and 2025 passed a number of bills:
The establishment of a model policy for law enforcement response to sexual assault.
Inclusion of sexual assault victims in the state’s paid family medical leave and paid sick days laws.
Allowing survivors to have a rape evidence kit completed without filing a police report.
Had the term “child pornography” changed to “child sexual abuse material” in CT State Statute to better reflect its definition and beginning in 2026, DPH must include sexual assault in the CT School Health Survey.
Extended protections available under CT’s anti-Slapp statute to include incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex.
Added victims of sexual assault and trafficking in persons as protected classes for purposes of the State’s anti-discrimination statutes
With UA Local 777 and SMART Local 38, passed a bill in year one that requires contractors on prevailing wage jobs to pay its offsite workers in the plumbing and sheetmetal industries prevailing wage while routinely fighting off attacks on prevailing wage and apprenticeship ratios.
In 2025, with Friends of the Earth and the CT Pesticide Reform Working Group passed a bill to ban neonicitinoids pesticides on all turf grass - about 300,000 acres.
With the CT Jewish Advocacy Coalition, had language included in an omnibus education bill requiring the State to engage with local Boards of Education to develop informed and current curricula on antisemitism for public schools.
Since 2023, I have proudly represented CT Tenants Union in trying to pass Just Cause Eviction proceedings. I work year-round with the group to ensure that elected officials are engaged in their tenant union organizing across the State.