Diana Richardson

Diana Richardson is an American politician who is a member of the New York Assembly. She was elected on the Working Families Party line in a 2015 special election to replace Karim Camara in the 43rd district, which comprises the Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhoods of Brooklyn.[1]

Diana Richardson
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 43rd district
Assumed office
May 6, 2015
Preceded byKarim Camara
Personal details
Born (1987-01-16) January 16, 1987
Brooklyn, New York
Political partyDemocratic
Other political
affiliations
Working Families Party
Children1
ResidenceBrooklyn, New York
Alma materMedgar Evers College (B.A.)
Baruch College (M.P.A.)
WebsiteAssembly website

Early life and education

Richardson was born in Brooklyn, to Caribbean immigrant parents from Aruba,[2][3] and raised in Crown Heights.[3]

Richardson has an undergraduate degree in public administration from Medgar Evers College, and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, both campuses of the City University of New York.[2][3]

Career

Richardson was a Brooklyn Community Board 9 member when the Crown Heights Tenant Union, an advocacy organization for tenants that organizes, educations, and helps residents in housing court cases,[4][5] convinced her to run for an open New York Assembly seat on an anti-gentrification platform.[6]

She won the May 2015 special election,[7] on the Working Families Party (WFP) ballot line, the first to do so in the state legislature.[7] She also won the general election the following November, on both the Democratic Party line as well as the WFP.[3]

In 2016, Richardson was arrested for hitting her 12-year-old son with a broomstick and charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.[8][9]

In 2020, Richardson was pepper-sprayed by the New York City Police Department while marching at a demonstration over the killing of George Floyd.[10] Richardson faced a primary challenge in the 2020 elections from Jesse Hamilton.[11]

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Karim Camara
New York Assembly, 43rd District
2015–present
Incumbent
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