Nominee's Key Links:
Bio: https://votesocialist2024.com/about-the-candidates
Resume or CV: https://ballotpedia.org/Claudia_De_La_Cruz
Writing or Publications: https://www.intpubnyc.com/book-author/claudia-de-la-cruz/
Website: https://votesocialist2024.com/
Video: https://youtu.be/X_EHcdwUuy0
Socials: https://x.com/claud9_?s=21
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Organization name(s) and position(s) for which nominator feels nominee is best suited:
Policies which the nominator knows the nominee supports or in which they have expertise:
Educator, Organizer, Theologian
Nominator's thoughts on what would make this nominee a valuable member of a future Trump Unity Government
1) Is Competent ...
Among other things, she has served as the Co-Executive Director and co-founder of the The People’s Forum in New York City—a political education space and cultural home for working-class organizers, leaders and intellectuals from all over the country, and around the world. In her role at The People’s Forum, Claudia continued her work towards building internationalism and people to people solidarity. She has led and participated in numerous international gatherings and events all over the world. Claudia has been a key convener of groups and social movements, and contributor to the overall conception and development of political education and cultural programming.
2) Is Honest...
For nearly 30 years, Claudia has demonstrated a fierce commitment to building people power. She has actively participated and contributed to collective grassroots initiatives, particularly in the Black and Latino neighborhoods of Washington Heights and the South Bronx, communities that continue to play a special role in her political development and journey.
3) Is Respectful ...
Claudia connects different groups of people to link and merge struggles together in the overarching fight for justice.
4) Has Integrity ...
As a young woman, she was exposed to many other communities in struggle from around the world: from the Puerto Rican independence movement, the Palestinian struggle, and the communities of exiles from Chile and Colombia; to the solidarity struggles with Haiti, peasant struggles in Brazil, and the grassroots leaders from Venezuela organizing the Bolivarian Circles; to Black liberation struggles, the progressive and leftist Dominican community. Seeing people from all over the world standing up for their dignity and sovereignty only fortified her commitment to build international solidarity and political organization inside the United States.
5) Has Courage ...
She traveled to Cuba for the first time at the age of 17 during the Special Period of extreme economic hardship, and the resilience, conviction, and revolutionary spirit of the Cuban people transformed her. Seeing their resistance reaffirmed her commitment to fight for a world free from the domination of Washington and Wall Street.
6) Has a Proven Record...
Claudia, along with a group of four teenage women co-founded and directed Da Urban Butterflies (DUB). DUB was a youth leadership development project and center for young women from the Washington Heights community and the Bronx to build sisterhood, learn histories of struggle and resistance, and engage in collective action for justice. For 13 years, DUB was a space where young women were able to learn about collective action and struggle, organize study circles, summer programs, conferences, summits, rallies, cultural festivals, participated in solidarity brigades, as well as build coalitions and collaborations.