IMPACT

With March For Our Lives, I led marches, published op-eds, testified at public hearings, and lobbied elected officials in both Albany and Washington. In Albany County, we secured funding for gun buyback programs, anonymous tip lines, and gun suicide awareness. Statewide, we contributed to the passage of dozens of gun violence prevention laws over the past half decade, including trauma-informed lockdown drills. Nationally, I've worked with physicians to help strengthen their legislative advocacy through compassionate personal narrative and storytelling.

In 2025, I launched Fight for Higher Ed, a student-led coalition opposing federal increases to the university endowment tax. The House proposal would have raised the university endowment tax up to 21%. After our emergency mobilization of financial aid recipients across campuses nationwide, the Senate revised the proposal downward to 8%. For Yale alone, that change represents an estimated $420 million that can now be allocated toward supporting first-generation and limited-income students. (Preliminary estimates suggested Yale would have owed approximately $700,000,000 to the Treasury under the House bill, compared to $280,000,000 under the final bill.) 

I write for The Politic on gun policy and American culture, and have moderated public conversations with leading advocates, policymakers, and storytellers: Rev. Al Sharpton, state executives, constitutional scholars, state legislators, and speechwriters building a common course of justice.