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Based in Astoria

Diana C. Moreno is a Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly District 36, representing the neighborhoods of Astoria and Long Island City in Queens. She is a labor organizer and immigrant rights advocate, inspired by her parents' experiences with workplace exploitation and discrimination. Moreno is the former deputy director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and currently serves as communications manager for the New York State Nurses Association.

  • Former deputy director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)

  • Communications manager for the New York State Nurses Association

  • Intern at Make the Road New York organizing immigrant workers

  • Union organizer for faculty, graduate students, and migrant farmworkers

  • Advocate for workplace safety legislation for construction workers

  • Member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Where they stand

  • Protecting Democracy and Empowering Ordinary People

    Moreno frames her candidacy as part of a movement to fight fascism and authoritarianism from the Trump administration. She believes organized people are more powerful than organized money and aims to build a multiracial working-class coalition.

  • Housing Affordability

    Moreno advocates for strengthening tenant protections, defending rent stabilization, and creating a Social Housing Development Authority to build and preserve affordable housing with union labor.

  • Public Safety and Justice for Immigrants

    Moreno stands up for immigrant neighbors under attack from Trump's deportation machine and supports passing the New York For All Act to restrict cooperation with ICE. She has participated in civil disobedience against ICE and has stated she is ready to defend her immigrant community, even if it requires putting her body in the line of fire.

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Their priorities

Issues Diana is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

  • Universal Childcare

    Diana Moreno supports enacting universal childcare by taxing the rich to fund free childcare for every New Yorker aged six weeks to five years. She has framed this as her main legislative priority and a continuation of Mayor Mamdani's affordability agenda.

Support

  • ZM

    Zohran Kwame Mamdani

    I've known Diana for years—and I know that in Diana, working families in Queens will have a tireless and unwavering ally. She will fight to make Queens—and all of New York City—a place where working people can afford to live and raise their families with dignity.

  • NA

    NYC-DSA (New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America)

    Democratic socialist organization

  • NP

    New York Working Families Party

    Political party

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Others running for State Assembly Member - District 36