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Columbia University—Bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Darializa Avila Chevalier is a working-class Dominican New Yorker and graduate student from Upper Manhattan. Ballotpedia reports that she worked as a paralegal, activist, and organizer, and was working toward a doctorate in sociology at the City University of New York; BallotReady lists experience including Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem investigator, Families for Freedom organizer, and Sivin & Miller paralegal.
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Darializa Avila Chevalier’s healthcare platform centers on treating healthcare as a human right and establishing Medicare for All. She supports universal coverage that includes physical and mental healthcare, lower prescription drug costs, reproductive care including abortion, long-term care, dental, vision, hearing, and gender-affirming care.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says she will fight for a free, universal healthcare system and her campaign identifies Medicare for All as a core healthcare priority.
SourceChevalier’s Day 1 agenda says she would sign onto the Medicare for All Act so everyone has health insurance including dental, vision, and hearing aids.
SourceChevalier’s platform supports lowering prescription costs as part of her Medicare for All healthcare agenda.
SourceChevalier’s campaign priorities include universal healthcare as part of a broader agenda focused on social safety net investments and working-class communities.
SourceChevalier’s campaign says Medicare for All should cover primary care, mental healthcare, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive care, long-term care, and lower prescription costs.
SourceDarializa Avila Chevalier’s Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes pro-labor policies, higher wages, expanded benefits, union organizing, and public job creation. She also frames economic policy around reducing household costs, fighting corporate power, and taxing wealthy individuals more heavily.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says she supports passing the PRO Act, making first collective bargaining agreements easier to secure, fully funding the NLRB, and preventing federal funding from going to union-busting companies.
SourceChevalier says she supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and enshrining cost-of-living adjustments, paid sick leave, and paid family leave in federal law.
SourceChevalier supports establishing a federal jobs guarantee, creating a four-day 32-hour work week with no loss in pay, and placing a federal moratorium on AI data centers to protect workers.
SourceChevalier says she will fight to criminalize corporate price gouging, break up monopolies such as Facebook and Amazon, ban super PAC money from elections, and prohibit congressional stock trading.
SourceChevalier supports a Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean-energy economy while creating high-wage union jobs.
SourceDarializa Avila Chevalier’s immigration platform is strongly pro-immigrant and anti-enforcement: she supports abolishing ICE and the deportation system, expanding pathways to citizenship, and guaranteeing legal support and protections for immigrants. She frames immigration policy around dignity for migrants, opposition to deportation and detention, and protections for immigrant communities in NY-13.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says she will fight to abolish ICE and the broader deportation machine, arguing that ICE controls immigrant communities rather than keeping them safe.
SourceChevalier supports expanding pathways to citizenship for DREAMers and undocumented immigrants.
SourceChevalier’s Day 1 agenda says she would sign onto the American Dream and Promise Act to provide a path to citizenship for DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.
SourceChevalier supports mandating free legal representation for immigrants in interactions with DHS and funding programs for quality immigration support.
SourceChevalier says a fair immigration system that gives dignity to migrants is necessary and possible, and criticizes detention, family separation, and deportation-related harms.
SourceDarializa Avila Chevalier supports an expansive Green New Deal approach, including a transition to 100% clean energy with high-wage union jobs. She also backs climate-linked public-housing and transportation policies, including a Green New Deal for Public Housing, decarbonizing NYCHA, and reducing reliance on car travel through more bikes, buses, and trains.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says she would sign onto a Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean energy economy with high-wage union jobs and a livable world for everyone.
SourceChevalier has advocated for a Green New Deal for Public Housing as part of addressing housing disrepair, climate impacts, and job creation in New York City public housing.
SourceChevalier argues that public housing needs to be decarbonized, citing health impacts on residents and climate benefits from fully decarbonizing NYCHA.
SourceChevalier says the district should decrease reliance on car transit and increase capacity for bikes, buses, and trains to address climate change, traffic, safety, and quality of life.
SourceDarializa Avila Chevalier supports a public-investment education agenda centered on free, quality public education from childcare through college, stronger funding for public schools, and better pay and working conditions for educators. She also opposes privatization pressures, charter-school expansion, student debt burdens, and restrictions on academic freedom and student civil rights.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says everyone has a right to free, quality public education and supports universal childcare and pre-K, fully funded schools, tuition-free public college, cancellation of student debt, and protection of academic freedom.
SourceHer campaign says she will support and defend teachers, graduate students, and other education workers as part of a broader public-education platform.
SourceChevalier argues that elected officials have failed to fund and protect public education from pre-K to college and says tax dollars should go to programs supporting children and families rather than billions for bombing foreign countries.
SourceUnder her family-support agenda, Chevalier supports free breakfast and afterschool programs for children, linking child well-being to broader public investment.
SourceDarializa Avila Chevalier frames public safety around reducing immigration enforcement and military spending while investing in families and community supports. Her platform emphasizes abolishing ICE, expanding immigrant legal protections and pathways to citizenship, and opposing weapons transfers used in Gaza.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Chevalier says she will fight to abolish ICE and the deportation system, arguing that ICE controls and criminalizes communities rather than keeping them safe.
SourceChevalier supports requiring free legal representation for immigrants in interactions with DHS and funding programs that provide immigration support.
SourceChevalier's Day 1 agenda says she would sign onto the American Dream and Promise Act to provide a path to citizenship for DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.
SourceChevalier's Day 1 agenda says she would sign onto the Block the Bombs Act to ban U.S. weapons transfers to Israel that are used to bomb Gaza.
SourceChevalier supports redirecting taxpayer dollars from wars abroad toward child tax credits, baby bonds, paid family leave, and other supports for families.
SourceBallotpedia
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Darializa For Congress
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BallotReady
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EL PAÍS English
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FEC API
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Blue Voter Guide
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A New Policy PAC
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OPEIU Local 153
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Actors' Equity Association
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Sunrise Movement
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Vote Smart / rating search
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NRA / LCV / ACLU rating searches
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Darializa For Congress
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Darializa For Congress
https://www.darializaforcongress.com/issues/day-1-agendaFetched: issuePositions
KLK New York
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The Guardian
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Darializa For Congress
https://www.darializaforcongress.com/issues?utm_source=chatgpt.comFetched: issuePositions
Darializa For Congress - Economic Security for All
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Darializa For Congress - Day 1 Agenda
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Darializa For Congress - Fighting Corporate Greed
https://www.darializaforcongress.com/issues/fighting-corporate-greedFetched: issuePositions
Darializa For Congress
https://www.darializaforcongress.com/issues/abolish-iceFetched: issuePositions
The Lobby News
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Discover the Networks
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EL PAÍS English
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Darializa for Congress
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Max Politics
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Streetsblog New York City
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Darializa For Congress - Quality Education
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Darializa For Congress - Priorities
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Darializa For Congress - Babies, Not Bombs
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Darializa For Congress - Abolish ICE
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