State Assembly Member - District 29
Alicia L. Hyndman
Won a November 2015 special election to represent the 29th Assembly District in Queens and chairs the Assembly Committee on Higher Education.
Issues Alicia is raising
Health care and product safety
Sponsored laws requiring labels on hair relaxers that contain certain dangerous chemicals (2025), on sickle cell disease detection and education (2023), and on spreading Alzheimer's and dementia information through the state's NY Connects long-term care program (2026). Voted for the medical aid in dying act. Her bill requiring makers of synthetic braiding hair to disclose ingredients passed the Assembly in March 2026.
State budget, consumers and the workplace
Voted for the 2026-27 state budget bill, the 2026 law giving employees access to their personnel records, the 2026 law on the attorney general's power to act against unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices, and the February 2026 change to limits on how close cannabis dispensaries may be to schools and houses of worship. Sponsored the 2025 law defining a "protected consumer" as anyone under 18.
College access, career schools and teacher training
Sponsored the 2025 law making students with diplomas from certain accredited online high school programs eligible for college admission and financial aid, and the 2025 law on the state's masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program. A 2023 bill of hers moving certain private career school tuition-reimbursement funds to vocational school supervision passed both houses and was vetoed.
Climate, gas service and flooding
Sponsored a bill directing New York City to analyze stormwater and groundwater problems in southeast Queens, which passed the Assembly 136-2 in March 2026. Voted for the 2024 law creating the state's climate change adaptation cost recovery program and fund. On the 2026 law on gas service to new customers, voted yes on an earlier roll call and no on final Assembly passage.
Abortion and gender-affirming care
Supports an unrestricted right to reproductive care and abortion. Voted for the 2026 law barring professional liability insurers from denying coverage or raising rates solely over the legal use or prescription of certain gender-affirming care drugs, which also sets procedures for out-of-state warrants seeking electronic data on legally protected health activities.
Background
Based in Laurelton · Age 55
Her professional career spans more than 15 years as a senior professional conduct investigator at the state Education Department. Before her election she served ten years on Community District Education Council 29, the last four as its president.
- Member of the New York State Assembly for District 29 since winning the Nov. 3, 2015 special election over Scherie Murray; sworn in Jan. 10, 2016
- Chairs the Assembly Committee on Higher Education; serves on the Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry; Education; Rules; and Ways and Means committees
- Member of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus and the Legislative Women's Caucus
- Her Assembly biography says she authored the state's Juneteenth legislation; the day is now observed statewide
- During negotiations on the 2017-18 state budget, joined a group of Assembly members of color who pushed successfully to include raising the age of criminal prosecution for non-violent felonies from 16 to 18
- Worked with state Sens. Leroy Comrie and James Sanders Jr. and Council Member Daneek Miller to develop the "Freedom Ticket" transit pilot program in southeast Queens
- Passed state legislation permitting New York City to award up to $150,000 to minority- and women-owned business enterprises without competitive bidding
- Worked more than 15 years at the state Education Department as a senior professional conduct investigator overseeing adult trade and vocational schools
- Earlier a counselor for the Brooklyn College Educational Talent Search Program, director of minority affairs at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of NYIT, and an assistant in the state Education Department's Office of Higher Education
- Served ten years on the city Department of Education's Community District Education Council 29, the last four as president; her Assembly biography says she brought in $30 million in capital funding for technology, facilities and playgrounds at district schools in that role
- B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz; master's degree in public administration, Framingham State College in Massachusetts
- Born Aug. 5, 1971, in London, England, and came to the U.S. as a young child; the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she grew up in Hollis and South Ozone Park and attended P.S. 34, I.S. 109, J.H.S. 226 and John Adams High School
- Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Queens Chapter of Jack and Jill; lives in Laurelton, Queens, with her family
- Re-elected unopposed in 2016; won 99.9% of the vote in 2018, 99.8% in 2020, 99.8% in 2022 on the Democratic and Working Families lines, and 85.8% over Dwayne Moore on Nov. 5, 2024; won the June 28, 2022 Democratic primary over Everly Brown with 79.5%
- Advanced to the Nov. 3, 2026 general election on the Democratic and Working Families lines after both parties' June 23, 2026 primaries for the seat were canceled
Support
New York Working Families Party
Also on your ballot on the Working Families Party line
Money
$412K
raised
Top donors: Lawpac Of New York, John O'Donnell, 32bj United Adf