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New York State Senate District 25
New York University—Bachelor of Fine Arts; Yale University—Master of Fine Arts
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Jabari Brisport is a lifelong Brooklyn resident, born in Bed-Stuy and raised in Prospect Heights, who represents New York's 25th State Senate District. He is a former New York City public school teacher, UFT member, organizer and activist whose work included organizing for same-sex marriage, Black Lives Matter protests, and later serving in the New York State Senate after being elected in 2020.
Committee Assignments: Children and Families · Banks · Codes · Housing, Construction and Community Development · Joint Senate Task Force on Opioids, Addiction & Overdose Prevention · Libraries · Procurement and Contracts
Jabari Brisport, Democratic/WF New York State Senator for District 25, frames healthcare as a human right and supports a single-payer New York Health Act, coverage regardless of immigration status, reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ healthcare access, and stronger protections/pay for healthcare workers. His legislative record includes sponsoring youth healthcare-consent and sexual-health/HIV-prevention education bills and co-sponsoring the New York Health Act.
Jabari Brisport frames economic policy around pro-labor protections, stronger unions, higher wages, unemployment support, and direct income supports, arguing that New York’s wealth should benefit working people rather than corporations and the ultra-rich. His campaign platform specifically supports indexing the minimum wage to inflation, One Fair Wage for tipped workers, stronger home-care pay and conditions, easier worker organizing, and unemployment/debt relief.
Jabari Brisport supports expanding immigrant rights and access to public benefits in New York, including protections from ICE collaboration, health coverage regardless of immigration status, and benefits for excluded immigrant New Yorkers. His campaign frames immigration policy around defending and expanding the civil rights of all New Yorkers regardless of country of origin or citizenship status.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Brisport's campaign platform states support for the New York Dignity Not Detention Act to end current and future ICE detention-center contracts in New York and stop jailing immigrants facing potential deportation.
SourceJabari Brisport supports a climate-justice agenda centered on fossil-fuel divestment, a state-level Green New Deal, public renewable power, shutting down polluting peaker plants, and directing clean-energy investment to disadvantaged communities. As the New York State Senator for District 25, he has sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to divest public funds from fossil fuels, expand publicly owned renewables, replace peaker plants, and fund climate-community investments.
Specific Actions & Proposals
States support for fully divesting New York from fossil fuels, enacting a state-level Green New Deal, bringing utilities such as ConEd under public control, and using NYPA to build sustainable energy resources.
SourceJabari Brisport supports fully funded public schools, opposes privatization through charter expansion, and emphasizes early-childhood education, CUNY affordability, restorative school discipline, educator diversity, and student support services. As a former public school teacher and current New York State Senator for District 25, he has sponsored or co-sponsored education bills focused on incarcerated youth diplomas, universal child care, educator diversity, CUNY investment, and reducing exclusionary school discipline.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Brisport supports universal child care and, as sponsor of the Universal Child Care Act, praised the 2026 rollout of free 2-K seats in Brooklyn neighborhoods including Ocean Hill and Brownsville.
SourceJabari Brisport frames public safety as community safety: investing in housing, jobs, health care, child care, schools, youth programs, and violence-prevention programs rather than expanding policing and incarceration. He supports decarceration, parole and sentencing reforms, limits on police power and surveillance, non-police mental-health crisis response, drug decriminalization/public-health responses, and ending court fees and cash bail.
Specific Actions & Proposals
States that New York should invest in communities, fund violence-prevention and youth programs, decarcerate, resist expanded police power and surveillance, and fight budgets that incarcerate rather than support neighborhoods.
SourceNew York City Campaign Finance Board
https://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2020/meet-the-candidates/meet-the-candidates/state-senator/senatorial-district-25/jabari-brisport/?languageType=EnglishFetched: education, biography
Citizens Union
https://citizensunion.org/voters-guide/2020-primary-election/ny-senate-district-25/Fetched: age, education, biography
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/candidate/jabari-brisportFetched: campaignFinance
New York Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/06/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-06.09.2026-002.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Sway
https://www.sway.co/candidate/jabari-brisport-b51d7429-9945-46aa-b84f-98aed0cbe504Fetched: endorsements
Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts
https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/af/44/af443976-e40e-4f37-9bd3-4622156c08e2/ppesa_2024_senate_scorecard.pdfFetched: ratings
The Freedom Index
https://thefreedomindex.org/ny/legislator/22276/votes/report-ny-scorecard-2025/pdf/sca/Fetched: ratings
Jabari for State Senate 2026
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/healthcare/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S3425
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3425Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S8937
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S8937Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S7618
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7618Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S3083
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S3083Fetched: issuePositions
Re-Elect Jabari Brisport for State Senate - Labor Platform
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/labor/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S3487
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3487Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S2131
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2131Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S9192
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S9192Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S7291
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7291Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S5623
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5623Fetched: issuePositions
Jabari for State Senate immigration platform
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/immigration/Fetched: issuePositions
NY State Senate Bill S2235
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2235/amendment/originalFetched: issuePositions
NY State Senate Bill S5904
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S5904Fetched: issuePositions
NY State Senate Bill S9033
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S9033Fetched: issuePositions
NY State Senate Bill S2237A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2237/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions
Jabari for State Senate - Climate
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/climate/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S954 Teachers' Fossil Fuel Divestment Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S954Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S3346 Climate and Community Investment Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3346Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S6453 Build Public Renewables Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6453Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S2955 Pollution Justice Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2955Fetched: issuePositions
Jabari for State Senate - Education Platform
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/education/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Jabari Brisport Profile
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jabari-brisportFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - 2-K Program Rollout Press Release
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/jabari-brisport/2-k-program-rollout-include-four-brooklynFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Bill S7101
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7101Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Bill S4461
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4461Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Bill S7198
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7198Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Bill S2505A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2505/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions
Re-Elect Jabari Brisport for State Senate - Community Safety
https://jabariforstatesenate.com/platform/community-safety/Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senator Jabari Brisport About
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jabari-brisport/aboutFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S1049
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S1049Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S4814
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4814Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S6418
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6418Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S3979
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S3979Fetched: issuePositions