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CUNY Graduate Center—Ph.D. in Comparative Politics; CUNY Graduate Center—M.Phil. in International and Global Affairs; Marist College—M.P.A. in Public Administration; B.A. in International Relations
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Wilneida Negron is a policy leader, researcher, and coalition builder with nearly two decades of experience across government, technology, investment, and community advocacy, with work focused on labor, AI, consumer protection, and public safety. Her career began in public service in New York City at juvenile detention centers, jails, senior centers, legal aid programs, crisis counseling initiatives, and community organizations, and she has served as an external advisor to two presidential administrations, developed regulatory and policy frameworks used by federal agencies, and led national working groups on public safety, defense, AI, work, labor markets, and technology.
Committee Assignments: No committee assignments available.
Wilneida Negron’s healthcare platform emphasizes lowering healthcare and prescription drug costs, defending and expanding public coverage, investing in community health and prevention, and strengthening senior care. She supports building toward universal coverage while preserving employer coverage options, expanding Medicare-related supports, and protecting access to hospitals and emergency services regardless of immigration status.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negron supports automatic enrollment in a public baseline health plan while allowing people to keep employer coverage, aiming for portable coverage not tied to one job.
SourceNegron supports expanding Medicare drug price negotiation, accelerating generics and biosimilars, banning pay-for-delay tactics, and capping out-of-pocket costs for common senior medications.
SourceNegron supports defending Affordable Care Act coverage and New York’s Essential Plan against federal rollbacks.
SourceNegron supports increasing funding for community health centers and the healthcare workforce as part of her public health infrastructure agenda.
SourceNegron supports expanding Medicare support for home-based elder care, telehealth check-ins, and care coordination so seniors can age safely at home.
SourceWilneida Negron frames her Economy & Jobs platform around a pro-worker economy, affordability, and workforce preparation for a changing technology-driven labor market. She supports stronger labor standards, tax changes aimed at corporations and high-income earners, lower household costs, and expanded vocational/community-college pathways.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negron supports protecting workers from exploitation, retaliation, and abusive surveillance, strengthening fair wages and labor standards, protecting bargaining power as technology changes workplaces, and modernizing protections for freelancers, caregivers, and other workers often excluded from basic standards.
SourceNegron supports expanding affordable housing preservation, strengthening rental assistance, creating a Family Care Credit for child care or elder care, expanding home-based elder care support, and cracking down on junk fees and deceptive pricing.
SourceNegron supports closing the tax gap through IRS enforcement targeted at complex corporate and high-income returns, ending carried-interest treatment, tightening S-corp loopholes, reviewing major business tax breaks, expanding the EITC and Child Tax Credit, and limiting abuse of luxury business deductions.
SourceNegron supports treating public schools, vocational programs, and community colleges as workforce infrastructure, including expanded Career and Technical Education, tuition-free community college access for displaced workers, stackable credentials, employer partnerships, and AI literacy.
SourceNegron argues the economy has been rewired against working people through compressed wages, concentrated corporate power, and underpaid care work, and she supports rebuilding around jobs that pay, affordable housing, and stronger public institutions.
SourceWilneida Negron frames immigration as needing to be orderly, humane, lawful, and functional, with expanded legal pathways, faster case processing, due process, work authorization, and sanctuary-style protections for local services. She also supports narrowing ICE enforcement toward serious public-safety threats and backs high-skill immigration reforms for international STEM graduates while maintaining vetting and fair-wage rules.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negron supports expanding legal pathways and reducing immigration backlogs that leave families and employers in limbo.
SourceNegron supports increasing immigration court capacity and legal support so immigration cases move faster and more fairly.
SourceNegron supports reforming immigration enforcement to focus on real public-safety threats, protect due process, reduce detention, and keep cities, schools, hospitals, and local services from becoming arms of federal immigration enforcement.
SourceNegron supports defending sanctuary city principles so schools, hospitals, and city services are not turned into immigration-enforcement arms, and also supports immigration-safe reporting channels for workers, tenants, and crime victims.
SourceNegron supports bipartisan efforts to offer a path to permanent residence for advanced STEM graduates and to reform high-skill visa programs so international talent strengthens American jobs without undercutting wages.
SourceWilneida Negron supports a clean-energy transition that emphasizes affordability, grid reliability, public health, and evidence-based sequencing. Her stated Climate & Energy positions include efficiency and weatherization for low-income households, hydropower/offshore wind/battery storage, keeping existing nuclear online, cap-and-invest with household rebates, and climate adaptation investments.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negron says New York should prioritize efficiency, weatherization, and demand response first, targeted to low-income households with the heaviest energy burdens.
SourceNegron supports bringing online projects already built or under way, including the Champlain Hudson hydropower line, offshore wind off Long Island, and battery storage to replace dirty peaker plants.
SourceNegron says existing nuclear plants should stay running and that new nuclear capacity should be developed as a firm, zero-carbon complement to wind and solar.
SourceNegron supports putting a cap-and-invest program in place by the 2028 deadline, with revenues returned directly to households so cutting pollution lowers bills rather than raising them.
SourceNegron says climate adaptation should be treated as infrastructure and supports investments such as upgraded air filtration, air purifiers for vulnerable households, clean-air centers, air-quality monitoring, smoke forecasting, and cooperation on wildfire prevention.
SourceWilneida Negrón supports strengthening public education as a core workforce and opportunity system, emphasizing high-poverty school funding, career and technical education, community colleges, AI literacy, and educator pay. Her Education & Opportunity Plan frames public schools, vocational programs, and community colleges as infrastructure needed for a changing economy.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negrón supports protecting and strengthening Title I funding, treating it as stable baseline infrastructure weighted toward concentrated poverty and insulated from annual budget brinkmanship.
SourceNegrón supports expanding, destigmatizing, and modernizing Career and Technical Education and trades programs for AI-era skills and strong-wage technical careers.
SourceNegrón supports making community colleges a national retraining engine through tuition-free access for displaced workers, stackable credentials, and employer partnerships.
SourceNegrón supports building AI literacy into K–12 education as a civic right so all students can understand, use, and critically assess AI tools.
SourceNegrón supports treating educator recruitment and pay as a workforce crisis, including closing the teacher wage penalty especially in high-poverty and STEM roles.
SourceWilneida Negron frames public safety as prevention, care, emergency-response modernization, civil-rights protections, and accountability rather than punitive enforcement alone. Her platform supports mental-health and non-police crisis response, community violence intervention, transit safety without over-policing, limits on surveillance technology, and tighter oversight of immigration and public-safety enforcement.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Negron supports funding crisis-response programs that send trained clinicians alongside or instead of police for mental-health emergencies, with the goal of reducing harm and allowing police to focus on situations that require law enforcement.
SourceNegron supports expanding evidence-based community violence intervention programs rooted in neighborhoods and led by people with lived experience to reduce gun violence.
SourceNegron supports investing in subway and bus safety through reliability, lighting, station conditions, and visible presence while avoiding over-policing.
SourceNegron supports conditioning federal public-safety funding on data transparency, use-of-force reporting, and demonstrated efforts to reduce racial disparities in enforcement outcomes.
SourceNegron supports limits on automated license plate reader data, including short retention periods, documented use for serious crimes and missing persons, warrant-based access for outside agencies, audits, public reporting, penalties for violations, and local consent before deployment.
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iVoterGuide
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Medium - Field Notes from NY-12
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A New Deal for the 21st Century | Dr. Wilneida Negrón for NY-12
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First 100 Days Agenda | Dr. Wilneida Negrón for Congress NY-12
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy candidate questionnaire
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Dr. Wilneida Negrón for Congress NY-12 campaign website
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Dr. Wilneida Negrón for Congress NY-12 First 100 Days Agenda
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