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Anna Kelles
Democratic PartySTH · NY · District 125
New York State Assembly District 125
STH · NY · District 125
New York State Assembly District 125
Binghamton University—dual bachelor's degree in Biology and Environmental Studies; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Anna Kelles represents New York State Assembly District 125, including Tompkins County and southwest Cortland County. Before joining the Assembly, she served in the Tompkins County Legislature from 2015 to 2020, where she chaired committees focused on health and human services, planning/environmental quality, and housing/economic development. Her professional background includes public health and nutrition work, teaching at Ithaca College and Cornell University, directing the School of Applied Clinical Nutrition at New York Chiropractic College, nonprofit environmental/economic development work, and private nutrition and wellness practice.
Committee Assignments: Commission on Rural Resources · Committee on Agriculture · Committee on Correction · Committee on Environmental Conservation · Committee on Health · Committee on Higher Education · Committee on Housing · Task Force on Food, Farm & Nutrition Policy · Legislative Women's Caucus · Task Force on Women's Issues
Anna Kelles supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, including a universal single-payer New York Health Act approach, while also emphasizing home and palliative care, caregiver wages, rural and mental healthcare workforce shortages, and prescription affordability.
Anna Kelles emphasizes an economy built around family-sustaining local jobs, stronger labor rights, fair scheduling and benefits, workforce protections, and clean-energy or infrastructure investments that reduce costs for households and small businesses. Her record includes sponsoring or co-sponsoring bills tied to local economic development, labor standards, job-market transparency, and access to professional licensing.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kelles states support for stronger collective bargaining, prevailing wages, retaliation protections, fair union elections, first-contract arbitration, wage-and-hour enforcement, paid leave, fair scheduling, and organizing rights in growing industries.
SourceAnna Kelles supports immigrant-protective policies that limit state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, keep New York out of immigration detention contracting, and guarantee legal representation in immigration court. As the Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 125, she has co-sponsored 2025-2026 legislation advancing those positions.
Anna Kelles, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 125, emphasizes climate action, greenhouse-gas reduction, fossil-fuel transition, energy affordability, and environmental-justice protections. Her climate and energy record includes sponsoring or introducing measures on proof-of-work crypto-mining energy use, cap-and-invest guardrails, fossil-fuel power-plant transition, grid reliability, and bans on new fossil-fuel extraction methods.
Anna Kelles supports stronger state oversight and equity in education, including maintaining New York State Education Department authority over nonpublic-school substantial equivalency standards. Her legislative record includes co-sponsoring bills on K-12 media literacy, school safety and discipline, teacher workforce diversity, conflict-resolution instruction, and protecting school district tax revenue.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Issued a formal statement opposing budget language that she said undermined State Education Department oversight of substantial-equivalency education standards for nonpublic schools.
SourceAnna Kelles, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 125, frames public safety as both violence prevention and justice-system reform, emphasizing services, data-informed prevention, and reducing barriers for victims and witnesses to work with law enforcement. Her public-safety record includes sponsoring bills on sex-trafficking witness immunity, pretrial services standards, incarcerated pregnant/birthing parents' safety, and Ithaca school-zone speed cameras.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kelles hosted a community safety town hall with the Vera Institute and local leaders focused on breaking cycles of crime through data-informed prevention, mental health, substance-use treatment, housing stability, and community investment.
SourceNew York State Assembly biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=125&sh=bioFetched: biography, education, background
New York State Assembly committee membership
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=125&sh=commFetched: committees
MyRepTracker
https://www.myreptracker.com/new-york/legislators/ny-house-125-anna-kelles/voting-recordFetched: votingRecord
New York State Assembly
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/113970Fetched: votingRecord
StreetsPAC 2026 NYS Post-Primary Endorsements
https://www.streetspac.org/2026_nys_post_primary_endorsementsFetched: endorsements
Vote Smart Anna Kelles biography
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/175947/anna-kellesFetched: identity
Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts 2024 Assembly Scorecard
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/b1/1e/b11e9b50-900f-45df-a922-1a3c9feff9a6/2024_ratings_assmb_oct.pdfFetched: ratings
Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts 2022 Assembly Candidate Ratings
https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/26/6d/266d0543-0592-4409-8a8a-6767950ef0f1/candidate_ratings_assm_2022.pdfFetched: ratings
New York League of Conservation Voters 2023 State Environmental Scorecard
https://nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/NYLCV_2023_StateScorecard_092923-DRAFT-w-scores.pdfFetched: ratings
The Freedom Index New York Legislative Scorecard 2025
https://thefreedomindex.org/ny/legislator/22406/votes/ny-scorecard-2025/pdf/scb/Fetched: ratings
VOTE411 Voter Guide
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=3618655Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member profile
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=125&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
NYS Senate Open Legislation - A1466
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A1466Fetched: issuePositions
NYS Senate Open Legislation - A3789
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3789Fetched: issuePositions
NYS Senate Open Legislation - A3862
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3862Fetched: issuePositions
NYS Senate Open Legislation - A1008
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A1008Fetched: issuePositions
NYS Senate Open Legislation - A8841
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8841/amendment/originalFetched: issuePositions
Anna Kelles campaign website
https://www.annakelles.com/strengthening-worker-rightsFetched: issuePositions
Anna Kelles campaign website
https://www.annakelles.com/protecting-the-environmentFetched: issuePositions
Anna Kelles campaign - Protecting Immigrant Communities
https://www.annakelles.com/protecting-immigrant-communitiesFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate legislation page - A3506A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3506/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate legislation page - A4181
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4181Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate legislation page - A270
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A270Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page for Anna R. Kelles, Assembly District 125
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=125&sh=sponsorFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on cryptocurrency mining excise tax
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/115424Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate bill page for A9138
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A9138Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on cap-and-invest legislation
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/110444Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on CO2 drilling and fracking ban
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/109488Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate bill page for A11645
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A11645Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate bill page for A10354
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A10354/amendment/originalFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/113970Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Anna R. Kelles Assembly District 125
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Anna-R-Kelles/story/115423Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation - A3994
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3994Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation - A4879
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4879Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Legislation - A10454
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y&bn=A10454&leg_video=1&term=Fetched: issuePositions