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New York University—B.A. in Sociology
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Micah Lasher is a New York State Assembly member for District 69 who has spent his career in public service on the West Side and in city, state, and federal government. Before his election to the Assembly in 2024, he served as Director of Policy for the State of New York, Chief of Staff to the New York State Attorney General, Director of State Legislative Affairs for the City of New York, and as an aide to Congressman Jerry Nadler. He has also served with civic and nonprofit organizations including Riverside Park Conservancy, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Community Service Society.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Children and Families · Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions · Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry · Committee on Environmental Conservation · Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
Micah Lasher frames health care as a right and supports universal coverage through Medicare for All or a similar comprehensive plan. His health care platform also emphasizes strengthening the Affordable Care Act, lowering prescription drug costs, reversing Medicaid cuts, and expanding mental health and community-based care.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher says he would push to pass Medicare for All or a similar plan that ensures universal health care coverage.
SourceLasher says he would strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend its subsidies.
SourceLasher says he would vote for the Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act to address high prescription drug prices.
SourceLasher says he would reverse Republican Medicaid cuts that he describes as harsh and misguided.
SourceIn his 2024 NYC Votes profile, Lasher said he would expand health care access, support the New York Health Act, and increase investment in mental health services, including inpatient psychiatric beds, supportive housing, and outpatient services.
SourceMicah Lasher’s Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes lowering costs for working families, expanding housing and child care support, raising and indexing the federal minimum wage, strengthening unions, and protecting workers from AI-related job displacement. He also frames tariffs, corporate tax avoidance, and unchecked Big Tech power as economic threats to consumers, workers, and small businesses.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher supports raising the national minimum wage and indexing it to inflation as part of his affordability agenda for working families.
SourceLasher says he would co-sponsor the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to join unions and protect the right to organize.
SourceLasher proposes a federal affordability agenda that includes expanding housing supply, fully funding Section 8 vouchers, investing in NYCHA repairs, raising the federal minimum wage, and supporting utility-bill tax credits.
SourceLasher supports a national wage insurance program to ease tech-driven job displacement and says workers and organized labor should have a real voice in AI policy.
SourceLasher says he would fight to repeal Donald Trump’s tariffs, arguing they raise costs and directly harm U.S. small businesses.
SourceMicah Lasher takes a strongly pro-immigrant stance: he supports abolishing ICE, limiting ICE authority and cooperation with local authorities, ensuring detained noncitizens have due-process access to lawyers and family, and creating pathways to citizenship. He frames immigration enforcement under the Trump administration as abusive and says immigrant communities should be protected through federal and state action.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher says he will fight to abolish ICE and replace immigration enforcement with an agency not centered on deportation and coercive tactics.
SourceLasher says he would vote for the Restoring Access to Detainees Act to ensure detained noncitizens can contact lawyers and family and receive due process.
SourceLasher said he would support Democratic efforts to withhold Department of Homeland Security funding until ICE agents obtain judicial warrants, show identification, and avoid sensitive locations.
SourceLasher said Congress should fight for an immigration system built on due process and a clear pathway to citizenship for immigrants living and working in the United States.
SourceAs an Assembly member, Lasher stated support for New York for All limits on state and local cooperation with ICE and sponsored legislation to make schools, hospitals, houses of worship, shelters, and other sensitive locations off-limits for civil immigration arrests.
SourceMicah Lasher presents climate change as an urgent priority and supports a pro-clean-energy agenda, including emissions cuts, renewable energy deployment, climate-resilient infrastructure, and accountability for fossil-fuel polluters. He also backs permitting reforms for renewable energy and resilience projects while saying core environmental protections should remain intact.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher says he would prioritize the clean energy transition in Congress, hold major polluters accountable, support legislation to rapidly curb carbon emissions, and rejoin international climate efforts.
SourceLasher says he would invest in climate-resilient infrastructure to protect New York’s waterfront and subway system while supporting the clean energy transition.
SourceLasher supports reforming NEPA and capital-project procurement to speed housing, transit, renewable energy, and resilience projects while preserving environmental and workforce protections.
SourceLasher told Streetsblog he would work to restart federal investment in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy, supporting both the Green New Deal and the Green New Deal for Housing.
SourceLasher wrote that he was a vocal advocate for the New York HEAT Act, which he described as a comprehensive bill to wean New York off fossil-fuel dependency.
SourceMicah Lasher’s education platform emphasizes defending and strengthening public schools and colleges, opposing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education or divert resources from public schools, and expanding support for students and school staff. He also highlights literacy improvement, school funding, student-loan relief, class-size reduction goals, and protections against discriminatory barriers to school enrollment.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher says he would vigorously oppose efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
SourceLasher says he would work to reverse federal cuts to education funding across the board.
SourceLasher supports ending the Republican tax penalty on student loan forgiveness.
SourceLasher says he would support the Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Bill of Rights.
SourceLasher said he would strongly oppose a national school voucher scheme and would oppose New York signing onto anything that diverts resources from public schools.
SourceMicah Lasher frames public safety as both crime prevention and quality-of-life policy, emphasizing gun-safety laws, mental-health investments, and local rather than federalized policing. He supports universal background checks, an assault-weapons ban, a national Red Flag law, more mental-health funding, limits on National Guard deployments to cities, and reentry support through the federal Clean Slate Act.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lasher says that in Congress he would vote for universal background checks for all gun sales and transfers.
SourceLasher says he would reinstate the assault-weapons ban and support a national Red Flag law.
SourceLasher calls for increased investment and focus on mental healthcare and cites prior work on New York mental-health funding as part of his public-safety record.
SourceLasher says he opposes deploying the National Guard to cities that neither want nor need them, and separately argues for limiting domestic military use under the Insurrection Act.
SourceLasher says he supports the federal Clean Slate Act to help people with non-violent records re-enter society.
SourceNew York State Assembly
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=69&submit=GoFetched: biography, location, background
New York State Assembly
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=069&sh=commFetched: committee assignments
BallotReady
https://www.ballotready.org/people/micah-c-lasherFetched: education, professional experience
Citizens Union
https://citizensunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AD69_MicahLasher.pdfFetched: age, education, professional background
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY12172/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
Federal Election Commission
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY12172/?cycle=2026&election_full=trueFetched: campaignFinance
CWA Local 1180 endorsement flier
https://www.cwa1180.org/docs/default-source/2024-endorsements/june-primary--micah-lasher-endorsements-flier-01.pdf?sfvrsn=f13bb6cf_2Fetched: endorsements
Three Parks Independent Democrats 2026 endorsement results
https://www.threeparksdems.org/Endorsements/Endorsements2026.pdfFetched: endorsements
New York League of Conservation Voters 2025 State Environmental Scorecard
https://www.nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/NYS-Scorecard-2025.pdfFetched: ratings
Freedom Index Micah C. Lasher legislator scorecard
https://freedomindex.us/legislator/9479/session/233/report/168Fetched: ratings
Vote Smart Micah Lasher profile
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/174984/micah-lasherFetched: ratings
Lasher for Congress - Platform and Policies
https://micahlasher.com/platform-and-policies/Fetched: issuePositions
NYC Votes - Micah Lasher candidate profile
https://www.nycvotes.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2024-state-and-federal-primary-election/member-of-the-assembly/profile/?bannerTitle=Micah+Lasher&boroughCode=null&candidateId=V1319&districtID=null&electionCycle=2024+June+Primary&geoAreaAbbr=37&officeType=7&officelevel=null&partyId=DFetched: issuePositions
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/amp/35076372/election-q-a-meet-ny-12-candidate-micah-lasherFetched: issuePositions
amNewYork
https://www.amny.com/sponsored/your-vote-2026-district-12-meet-micah-lasher/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly newsletter
https://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/member_files/069/pdfs/20250828_0115112.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Abundance New York Voter Guide
https://voterguide.abundanceny.org/questionnaires/micah-lasherFetched: issuePositions
Streetsblog New York City
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/06/09/jerry-nadler-ny-12-micah-lasher-laura-dunn-jack-schlossberg-alex-bores-streets-transportation-mta-congressFetched: issuePositions
Into the Weeds by Micah Lasher
https://substack.micahlasher.com/p/a-view-from-the-assembly-chamberFetched: issuePositions
Branch.vote - Micah C. Lasher platform and website
https://branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-us-representative-ny-congressional-12/candidates/micah-c-lasherFetched: issuePositions
Vital City - Micah Lasher interview
https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/micah-lasher-on-housing-immigration/Fetched: issuePositions
Into the Weeds by Micah Lasher - Planning a Post-Trump Legal Reconstruction
https://substack.micahlasher.com/p/planning-a-post-trump-legal-reconstructionFetched: issuePositions