Here in Assembly District 4, we face some big
Issues
Here's what Rebecca has to say about some of our communities' most pressing problems. Between her work as environmental educator, ten years of experience growing a small business, and four years of service as an elected Trustee and Deputy Mayor in Port Jefferson Village, Rebecca's experience helped her to deliver for our needs from day one in Albany. She's ready to build on that momentum in her second term, bringing home what we need to make our communities safer, healthier, and more affordable for our neighbors.
Affordability _
Supporting Our Veterans _
Supporting Our Volunteer First Responders
Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers
Government Transparency & Accessibility
Environmental Conservation
Public Safety & Crime Prevention
Children and Families _
Education _
Physical and Mental Health Services
Small Business _
Transportation Infrastructure
Senior Citizens _
Reproductive Health _
Green Energy _
Animals' Rights _
Consumer Protections _
Community Engagement _
Standing Up Against Hate and Discrimination
Affordability
New Yorkers are facing rising costs, and families deserve a government that works to make everyday life more affordable. Rebecca has worked to put money back in New Yorkers’ pockets, including: a historic tax cut for working families with the lowest middle-class tax rates since 1950’s; a state income tax exemption on up to $25,000 in qualifying tips; an energy rebate for the 2026 tax year; and reforms that work to lower auto insurance by strengthening oversight and cracking down on fraudulent claims.
To combat Long Island’s sky-high electric and natural gas prices, Rebecca delivered stronger oversight of utility rate increases, helping protect New Yorkers from unjustified hikes and ensuring utilities are held accountable. She will continue fighting to bring home your taxpayer dollars to strengthen Long Island’s infrastructure– from the electrical grid and wastewater treatment, to our public transit and the thousands of miles of roadways in Suffolk County.
Rebecca has been active in the fight for stronger oversight of data centers, which can place significant demands on New York’s electric grid, water resources, infrastructure, and local communities– all which can have a severe impact on local residents’ utility rates, environment, and quality of life. While Governor Hochul has issued an executive order pausing permitting for large data centers across New York, Rebecca joins her colleagues in advocating for Governor Hochul to sign the Responsible Data Center Development Act. The legislation would establish a one-year moratorium on data center permits while requiring stronger standards around energy use, utility costs, water infrastructure, host-community benefits, and labor standards.
Bringing home your taxpayer dollars in the form of infrastructure funding shifts costs off our local governments and relieves our local tax burden. In the 2026 budget, Rebecca fought for and secured $6.5mil for the rebuilding of the Mill Pond Dam and Harbor Road to help prevent any further delays in its restoration. She will keep fighting for Suffolk’s fair share of funding to fix our roadways and help prevent costly maintenance and repairs for our vehicles.
Seeing the struggles of our local families, Rebecca is working to make it easier for families to grow and thrive here on Long Island. She helped secure an expansion of New York’s Child Tax Credit, providing up to $1,000 per child under age four and up to $500 per child ages 4 through 16. Rebecca also fought to expand access to universal pre-kindergarten, increase funding for Suffolk County’s childcare subsidy program, and secure universal free school meals.
For New Yorkers seeking an education and building or shifting careers, Rebecca supported the launch of the new SUNY Reconnect program, which covers the cost of tuition, books, and more at community colleges across the state for New Yorkers age 25-55 seeking their first degree in high-demand fields. Rebecca will continue working to make higher education more affordable by increasing the income limits for the Excelsior Scholarship and the New York State Tuition Assistance Program. She will also continue supporting robust BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and apprentice pathways into the trades.
Through our high-quality public education system, we invest in our youth, and Rebecca is making it easier for young professionals to stay and build a life on Long Island. During her first term, she secured protections for first time homebuyers and local families by giving individual buyers a 90 day head start before large investment entities can make an offer on single and two family homes. In the coming session, she will also continue advocating for legislation that will make homeownership more affordable for first time buyers, like the establishing of tax advantaged First Home Savings Accounts to help New Yorkers save for a down payment while reducing their state income tax burden.
Rebecca is also working to help deliver relief and security for seniors. She has supported legislation giving eligible seniors additional time to apply for Enhanced STAR, helping ensure they do not miss out on valuable property tax relief. She has also introduced legislation to help seniors save on their utility bills by requiring utilities to automatically enroll eligible customers age 55 and older in available discount and savings programs, and supports legislation that would lower prescription drug prices.
There must be a path forward for every New Yorker who wishes to remain in the community they call home, and from utilities to healthcare costs, Rebecca will continue fighting for affordability measures to deliver relief for Long Islanders.
Supporting Our Veterans
New York’s veterans have made extraordinary sacrifices in their service to our country, and Rebecca is committed to ensuring veterans and their families have access to the resources they need and benefits they’ve earned. In her first term representing New York’s 4th Assembly District, Rebecca helped to deliver the opportunity for property tax relief for 100% disabled veterans, and has supported legislation expanding services for veterans.
She also maintains strong partnerships with local veterans organizations and the Long Island State Veterans Home. Through her annual Veterans Resource Fair, she connects veterans and their families with organizations offering resources related to health care, mental health, housing, employment, benefits, and community services. In 2026, her second annual Veterans Resource Fair connected more than 150 veterans and their loved ones with more than 3 dozen organizations and agencies.
Rebecca has also partnered with Long Island Cares to deliver holiday meals for local VFW and American Legion posts, helping ensure that our district’s veterans organizations feel our love and appreciation during the holiday season. Her strong partnership with the Long Island State Veterans Home takes the form of advocacy to secure state funding for the facility and its nurse-training program in conjunction with Stony Brook University. She also works to bring community members together with veterans through initiatives such as April’s Poppy Monthly Mission event, where more than 50 volunteers worked alongside veterans to make 500 remembrance poppies.
Rebecca is committed to continuing her work expanding access to physical and mental health care for veterans and their families, supporting our local veterans organizations and care facilities, and serving alongside the incredible men and women whose service legacy continues in our communities.
Supporting Our Volunteer First Responders
Firefighters, public safety officers, EMTs, ambulance workers, and other heroic volunteer first responders are essential to Long Island communities’ safety and well-being. Rebecca has advocated for stronger benefits and protections for the volunteers who respond when their neighbors need help most.
Rebecca supports legislation providing an $800 state income tax credit and additional property tax relief for eligible volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers. She has also worked to advance protections for firefighters by addressing harmful PFAS chemicals in firefighting protective equipment and foam.
Rebecca is also working to make it easier for volunteer first responders to remain in the communities they serve, including advocacy for low-interest home loans for eligible volunteer firefighters and EMS workers. Rebecca has directly secured over $1 million in additional state funding for our own local fire districts and EMS organizations so they have the equipment, facilities, and resources they need to protect our residents. To show her gratitude for all our volunteer first responders give, Rebecca is committed to continuing her active collaboration and support of those who protect our life and property every day.
Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we live, learn, work, and communicate. New York has an opportunity to embrace the benefits of this technology while making sure innovation does not come at the expense of public safety, transparency, and risks to our children.
Rebecca has advocated for stronger oversight of data centers, which can place significant demands on New York’s electric grid, water resources, infrastructure, and local communities. In July 2026, Governor Kathy Hochul issued Executive Order 62 establishing a temporary statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data center development and a framework for community benefits, which moves us in the right direction, but Rebecca joins her colleagues in advocating for Governor Hochul to sign the Responsible Data Center Development Act. This legislation would establish a one-year moratorium on data center permits while requiring stronger standards around energy use, utility costs, water infrastructure, host-community benefits, and labor standards. Rebecca also commends the Town of Brookhaven for passing a town-level moratorium to supplement and localize data center regulations to our region’s unique needs.
Protecting our children from the dangers of emerging technologies is also paramount: Rebecca has taken action by sponsoring and passing legislation to establish a five-year moratorium on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of chatbot toys in New York State. She has also supported the RAISE Act to promote transparency around AI-generated news content, and responsible safeguards for advanced AI systems and chatbots. Rebecca continues to engage in conversations with local teachers, administrators, and families about the use of technology by our youngest residents, and looks forward to shaping regulations to protect New Yorkers as we move together into the future.
Government Transparency & Accessibility
Government works best when it is accessible and accountable to the people it serves. Here in the district, Rebecca hosts office hours in our local libraries throughout each summer to provide an easy, comfortable opportunity for local individuals and families to get to know their representative, connect with resources, and ask questions or share opinions.
Rebecca feels strongly that constituents should be able to easily find information about their local government, access public records, and understand how decisions are being made. That’s why Rebecca passed legislation to make government more accessible, ensuring local governments with over 1,500 residents maintain secure, official .gov websites. She has also passed legislation to make it easier for municipalities to connect local job-seekers with public employment opportunities by authorizing villages, towns, and counties to list openings on a state database.
She has also advocated for legislation that requires greater transparency when generative AI is used to create news content to ensure that New Yorkers can more easily understand the difference between real information and fake content.
Rebecca will continue working to strengthen transparency and accountability, including her work to modernize New York’s Freedom of Information Law process so that residents can more easily access public records and appeal denials. With the goal of helping representatives from all levels of government must also work together to deliver for their shared constituents– regardless of political affiliation– Rebecca has and will continue facilitating round-table meetings with fellow elected officials and civic leaders to confront local concerns, foster greater economic development, further critical infrastructure projects, and deliver state funding for community needs.
Environmental Conservation
Protecting Long Island’s environment means safeguarding the natural spaces, waterways, sole-source aquifer, recreational opportunities, economic engines, and ecosystems that make our region unique and that generations of Long Island residents rely on. Rebecca has made environmental protection a priority in Albany, working to preserve the spaces that make our communities special while addressing the pollution and environmental challenges that threaten them.
In 2026, Rebecca introduced and advanced legislation to permanently preserve the Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail, ensuring this important recreational and natural resource remains protected for generations to come. She also advanced the Whale Awareness Act, which promotes safer boating practices and helps reduce harmful interactions between water craft and marine life. Both of these bills have been signed into New York State law.
Rebecca knows that environmental sustainability IS fiscal responsibility, and always looks for crossroads between environmental advancements and affordability efforts. In 2025, she introduced and passed legislation to expand funding for septic system replacement with advanced IA systems, helping homeowners receive up to 75% or $25,000 to offset the cost of upgrading failed cesspools with models that reduce nitrogen to protect our groundwater and waterways from pollution. She brought $20mil to Suffolk County for this program, and when paired with Suffolk County’s available funding, many homeowners are able to be fully reimbursed for the cost of this home repair.
She supports legislation that would provide rebates for electric landscaping equipment, helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and cut noise pollution in our neighborhoods. Rebecca also pushes alongside her colleagues for the Plastic Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act that would require companies to reduce wasteful, non-recyclable packaging for products; this would translate to savings for our local municipalities and taxpayers, because at the end of the day, we are the ones paying to cart away all that waste. She also champions legislation to prohibit PFAS in everyday products to keep these “forever chemicals” from poisoning our waterways and our bodies.
In the coming session, Rebecca will work to continue advancing a comprehensive “Skip the Stuff” law. Already law in New York City, the state of New Jersey, and many local municipalities in New York State, this state-wide legislation would require food service establishments to provide single-use utensils, condiment packets, napkins, and other covered items only upon customer request for takeout, delivery, and drive-thru orders. This balanced approach would reduce single use plastics while retaining consumer access and choice, all the while taking pressure off our solid waste transfer system.
With deep roots in environmental science and conservation, Rebecca understands that effective environmental policy must balance conservation with the everyday needs of Long Island families and businesses. She will continue championing practical, forward-thinking environmental protections that preserve our natural resources, reduce pollution and maintain Long Island’s environment for future generations.
Public Safety & Crime Prevention
Public safety is key to our quality of life here in Suffolk County. Rebecca has supported legislation regarding e-bike and e-scooter safety, illegal firearm manufacturing, doxxing, drugged-driving, and countless other public-safety concerns.
Rebecca is working closely with the Suffolk County Police Department on local initiatives as well as legislative initiatives. Locally, she secured funding for SCPD’s Behavioral Health Unity, and is working to help them achieve the 30x30 goal that aims to have 30% of the police force be female officers by 2030. These efforts include maternity leave for officers, support of recruitment efforts, and funding to support the needs of women who serve and protect our neighbors.
Rebecca is also advocating for updates to New York’s drugged-driving laws so law enforcement can more effectively address impaired driving. Current legislation would modernize definitions of drug impairment and intoxication and update field-testing procedures to keep dangerous drivers off our roads. With deep concerns about driving while high and under the influence of other impairing substances, Rebecca will continue fighting for modernization of our laws to crack down on dangerous driving.
Rebecca helped advance stronger protections against the manufacture of untraceable firearms and firearm components using 3D printers. She also helped close a dangerous legal loophole by establishing a new Class D felony for the creation, possession, or distribution of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Rebecca will continue working to address emerging threats to public safety, including her work to provide a legal pathway for victims of doxxing when their personal information is intentionally disclosed to harass, threaten, intimidate, or harm them.
Rebecca will also continue to advocate for thoughtful updates to New York’s bail laws and other policies to strengthen public safety, improve accountability, and ensure that communities have the tools necessary to address crime.
Children and Families
Rebecca believes New York’s children and families deserve safe communities, affordable resources, and policies that empower every single child to thrive. She is working to make it easier for families to afford the everyday costs of raising children, expand access to quality education and childcare, and protect children from harmful chemicals and emerging technologies.
Rebecca helped to secure an expansion of the Empire State Child Credit, which provides up to $1,000 per qualifying child under age four and up to $500 for children ages 4 through 16. She also helped expand access to universal pre-kindergarten and secure funding for Suffolk County’s childcare subsidy program, helping make childcare more affordable for working families. Similarly, she worked to secure universal free school meals, ensuring that every child has access to nutritious food at school regardless of their household income.
Rebecca firmly believes that protecting children means paying special attention to the products and technologies that they encounter every day. She cosponsored legislation to ban the sale of playground surfacing materials containing harmful chemicals, including PFAS, PAHs, and lead. This is also why she cosponsored the Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act, which would strengthen New York’s food safety standards and improve transparency around food additives.
There is a rising and ever-present health risk to our children and families here on Long Island: tickborne illnesses. Rebecca is working with her colleagues to advocate for tick control programs, support research, and make preventative and care measures more accessible to our families impacted by tick bites.
She also sponsored and passed legislation establishing a five-year moratorium on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of chatbot toys in New York State, knowing that these rapidly developing artificial intelligence technologies can pose terrifying risks to children. As AI continues to develop, Rebecca is dedicated to making certain that innovation does not come at the expense of safety, transparency, or healthy childhood development. She continues to connect with local teachers and administrators, along with parents and family members, to understand how young people are interacting with technology and support responsible safeguards for advanced AI systems.
Rebecca is also working to ensure that children have safe and supportive environments within their school systems. She has helped to expand universal pre-kindergarten, secure universal free school meals, and strengthen school safety. She secured funding to support the Sunshine Prevention Center for students impacted by addiction or mental health issues in their home, as well as support for the Family Service League.
On top of bringing home a record amount of school aid for our local districts, she secured over $742,000 in additional funding for capital projects, mental health support, STEM programs, security features, and student enrichment at the Comsewogue, Longwood, Middle Country, Port Jefferson, and Three Village Public School Districts. Working with the Longwood School District, she secured $2.265mil for the construction of a new publicly-accessible playground, sport court complex, and pavilion at Coram Elementary for the students and local families to have a safe, fun place to gather and play. For all our schools, she proudly cosponsors school safety legislation, including a bill requiring schools to include cardiac emergency response plans in their safety plans to help staff respond quickly to life-threatening emergencies.
All in all, Rebecca is certain that supporting children means supporting the families who raise them. She will continue working to make New York more affordable for families, and to give New York families the resources and protections they need to build a stronger future in our district and our state.
Education
Rebecca believes that every New Yorker deserves equal access to a quality education and the necessary support for students to learn and grow in a safe, healthy environment. She has helped to expand universal pre-kindergarten, secure universal free school meals, and strengthen school safety. On top of bringing home a record amount of school aid for our local districts, she secured over $742,000 in additional funding for capital projects, mental health support, STEM programs, security features, and student enrichment at the Comsewogue, Longwood, Middle Country, Port Jefferson, and Three Village Public School Districts. She also works with her colleagues to make our schools safer, including supporting legislation that would require schools to include cardiac emergency response plans in their safety plans, helping staff respond quickly to life-threatening emergencies.
She is also working to make higher education more accessible for New Yorkers. She supports expanding eligibility for the Excelsior Scholarship and TAP, while supporting programs such as SUNY Reconnect that allow eligible adult learners to pursue degrees in high-demand fields without paying tuition, fees, or supplies. SUNY Reconnect was recently expanded in the 2026-27 Enacted Budget to cover additional job fields and SUNY institutions.
With Stony Brook University in the heart of the district, and Suffolk Community College not far away, Rebecca enthusiastically works alongside leadership at these institutions to not only support students, faculty, and staff, but to also connect our community at large to the incredible resources on these campuses.
Physical and Mental Health Services
Access to quality healthcare is a fundamental right, but rising premiums, deductibles, and co-pays, along with shortages in providers, keep individuals and families from the care they need and deserve. Rebecca knows that New Yorkers having coverage and access to preventive and primary care services not only provides dignity, but is more fiscally responsible; uninsured individuals needing to defer care until they require emergency services results in greater distress, more critical health conditions, and higher care costs for communities.
Rebecca is not only working to provide more affordable and accessible physical and mental healthcare coverage for New Yorkers, but also supporting legislation to make sure that lifesaving cancer screenings and inhalers are covered, and to improve support for New Yorkers living with rare diseases. Preventing health hazards is also a priority, including support of legislation to strengthen food safety standards.
There is a rising and ever-present health risk to our neighbors here on Long Island: tickborne illnesses. Rebecca is working with her colleagues to advocate for tick control programs, support research, and make preventative and care measures more accessible to our families impacted by tick bites.
Youth mental health is another rising concern that Rebecca shares with local parents, so she has been able to secure additional funding for local schools to support peer-to-peer mental health programming, as well as funding for nonprofit organizations who provide free mental health services to families.
Whether it’s our children, seniors, veterans, LGBTQ+ or any other vulnerable population, we must ensure that patients and their families have access to necessary care here in New York.
Small Business
Small businesses are the backbone of our local communities, and supporting them means helping reduce the costs and barriers that make it difficult for them to start and grow. From her positions on the Assembly’s Small Business and Economic Development Committees, Rebecca worked to secure $8 billion to pay down New York’s unemployment insurance debt, providing cost relief for small businesses and helping prevent further increases in unemployment insurance costs. She also helped secure a reduction in the MTA Payroll Mobility Tax for roughly 10,000 local small businesses.
Rebecca is always delighted to attend local ribbon-cutting events for new businesses. As a small business owner of ten years– running a bed-and-breakfast with her husband– she knows how challenging it is to open and run a business in our district, but also how rewarding it is and how these businesses make our communities special. Rebecca will continue working to support our local businesses and small business owners as they work around the clock to deliver unique services and products for our neighbors.
Transportation Infrastructure
Reliable and accessible transportation is essential to keeping our communities connected and making it easier for New Yorkers to get to work, school, appointments, and wherever else they need to go, especially here on Long Island. Rebecca is working to make transportation more accessible for drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, those taking public transportation, and people with disabilities.
Rebecca’s successful preservation of the Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway has helped to resolve a longstanding land-use conflict involving the corridor. In preserving the Greenway as a multimodal trail, it can never be turned into a vehicular bypass, and so the legislation cleared the way for plans to modernize and electrify the Port Jefferson LIRR line to move forward. Rebecca’s work brings Long Island one step closer to a one-seat ride for residents and visitors, while supporting better air quality and improved rail service.
She helped to expand the MTA’s family fare policy for children ages 12 to 17, helping families save on the cost of public transportation. Rebecca will continue advancing policies that make public transit more affordable and attractive to Long Islanders so that they can get where they need to go without breaking the bank, and we can experience some relief from rush-hour traffic.
Rebecca is also advocating for transportation planning that reflects the voices of our communities. As planning continues for the Route 347/Nicolls Road bridge, Rebecca is working to ensure that neighborhood perspectives are taken into account and that any improvements serve pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, emergency vehicles, and motorists. The Route 347 project includes pedestrian and bicycle facilities as part of a broader effort to make the corridor multimodal safe.
Rebecca will continue advocating for accessible bike and pedestrian lanes and working to make transportation safer and more accountable, such as introducing legislation to create an interactive online portal where residents can report and track potholes and other highway defects.
Senior Citizens
Older New Yorkers deserve to enjoy their retirement in the communities where they worked and built a life for themselves and their families. With rising costs for everything from utilities to medications, Rebecca is working to help deliver relief and security for seniors. She has supported legislation giving eligible seniors additional time to apply for Enhanced STAR, helping ensure they do not miss out on valuable property tax relief. She has also introduced legislation to help seniors save on their utility bills by requiring utilities to automatically enroll eligible customers age 55 and older in available discount and savings programs, ensuring they receive benefits they might otherwise miss.
Rebecca will continue working to help seniors manage costs by advocating for legislation that makes prescription medications more affordable, including an effort to create a wholesale drug importation program designed to bring substantial savings to New York consumers. She will also help retirees remain in their communities by working to expand access to utility, tax, and medication savings programs, and creating resources to support older New Yorkers who want to remain in the workforce.
Reproductive Health
Reproductive health is about making sure New Yorkers have access to the care, information, and resources they need. Rebecca is championing legislation to expand health education around menstrual disorders, including endometriosis, so New Yorkers can better understand these conditions and know when they or their loved ones should seek care. Rebecca has also supported legislation to protect New Yorkers from harmful substances in menstrual products, including lead and mercury.
Reproductive health also means reproductive freedom. She will continue to prioritize reproductive freedoms, making sure that women retain their bodily autonomy, freedom to choose, and essential care.
Green Energy
Rebecca knows that a brighter future includes smart expansion of New York’s clean energy infrastructure, as well as pathways to empower residents to use green energy access to offset costs of utility bills. She has supported legislation to make portable solar energy easier for New Yorkers to use, while speaking out against the use of farmland and woodland for solar farms.
Rebecca is continuing this effort by introducing legislation to expand clean energy across SUNY campuses through solar canopies over parking areas. The legislation would increase renewable energy generation on state property while making better use of space that is already available on SUNY campuses. She supports aiding municipalities and school districts with investments in solar and geothermal to ultimately reduce their costs and pass those savings onto taxpayers.
There are some technologies, like large-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage facilities, which do not belong in the back yards of our residents. Rebecca advocates for local restrictions on these facilities, and looks forward to technological advancements that do not put our residents and our water at risk. By taking educated, deliberate steps forward, we can leverage green energy to help level utility costs, build healthier communities, and protect the environment we all share.
Animals’ Rights
Being a voice for the voiceless is key to building a compassionate world. Rebecca has earned the endorsement of Voters for Animal Rights through her work to strengthen animal protections by sponsoring legislation that would establish a minimum $500 fine for abandoning an animal. She also introduced legislation to require appropriate restraints, enclosures, or other safety measures when dogs are transported in open cargo areas like truck beds, helping protect them from serious injury or death. She looks forward to continuing her work alongside her colleagues to protect animals across New York State.
Consumer Protections
New Yorkers deserve representatives who will stand between them and predatory business practices. Rebecca introduced and passed legislation to strengthen consumer protections in mobile sports wagering by requiring clear, standardized monthly account statements, giving consumers a better understanding of their spending and increased access to gambling addiction resources.
Rebecca also supported new protections requiring businesses to disclose when prices are set dynamically by AI or algorithms, and legislation to prevent businesses from using personal data to charge different consumers higher or lower prices for the same products or services. These practices are taking money out of the pockets of New Yorkers to feed big corporations, and as district four’s representative, Rebecca is fully committed to increasing transparency and fairness for our hard-working families.
She continues to work on additional consumer protections around mobile sports wagering practices, and supports the passage of legislation like the Beauty Justice Act to restrict harmful ingredients in personal care and cosmetic products.
Community Engagement
Being an effective representative means showing up for the community, both as a representative in Albany and neighbor here at home. In her first year serving as district four’s Assembly representative, she launched a program series called “Monthly Missions” to give residents a hands-on opportunity to do good in their community every single month. Rebecca and her staff coordinate with local nonprofits and local government officials to host events ranging from beautification and citizen science, to fighting food insecurity and honoring our veterans. Each month, neighbors gather around a shared goal of addressing local needs, bringing people together around projects that make a difference. This also helps Rebecca personally connect with constituents at these public programs.
Each summer, Rebecca and her staff team up with our amazing local libraries to coordinate a district-wide mobile office hour tour. Stopping at each of our district’s libraries twice– once in the morning and once in the evening– Rebecca and her staff bring government resources to these hubs of activity and knowledge. Whether they’re connecting with folks who happen to be passing by on their way to programming or checking out a book, or individuals who come to the mobile office hours with a specific concern, this series of events brings government to the people it’s built to serve.
Throughout the year, she hosts additional annual events alongside local partners, such as blood drives, veterans resource fairs, a summer safety and family fun event at West Meadow Beach, and more! These events are free and aim to strengthen and celebrate our community. She looks forward to continuing to serve our district through unique, engaging programming.
Standing Up Against Hate and Discrimination
Rebecca is working to build a district and a state where every person is able to live, worship, learn, and participate in their community without fear of harassment, intimidation, or violence. She has worked to strengthen protections for communities that may face threats because of their identity, faith, or place of gathering, while also partnering with local organizations, faith leaders, schools, and residents to address discrimination and safety concerns in the community. In the 2026-2027 State Budget, Rebecca supported legislation creating 50-foot protest-free buffer zone protections for religious institutions– including schools and community centers– helping provide greater protection against intimidation and violence.
Rebecca has also worked to combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of discrimination on college campuses. She voted for a first-in-the-nation law requiring every college campus in New York to appoint a Title VI Coordinator to serve as a centralized authority for investigating and responding to discrimination and bias. In addition, she helped to secure more than $1 million for the Holocaust Survivor Initiative in the 2026-2027 State Budget, supporting programs that assist Holocaust survivors and preserve the lessons of their experiences for future generations. She is also an active member of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Task Force, working to elevate the voices and experiences of Asian New Yorkers and address hate and discrimination affecting minority communities. She will continue to build local relationships, stand with all our neighbors, and advocate for safer, more inclusive communities where every New Yorker can live, worship, and learn without fear.
