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New York State Assembly District 2
Roanoke College—B.A. in English; SUNY Stony Brook—Masters in TESOL
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Kimberly Wilder is running for New York State Assembly District 2 as an independent progressive candidate on the Voter Options line. Her listed experience includes coordinating a peace, justice, and environmental group, founding Riverhead Area School Info/Riverhead RASI, and publishing as a political writer. Her campaign site says she has advocated for third-party and independent ballot rights, immigrant neighbors, due process, peace and nonviolence, environmental protection, and women’s bodily autonomy.
Committee Assignments: No committee assignments available.
Kimberly Wilder supports state-level single-payer universal health care and says New York should spend on needed healthcare while also using social innovation to improve healthcare-related systems. She also proposes healthcare workforce/caregiver career-path laws and child data-protection rules that would limit children’s birthdate collection mainly to health care and educational entities.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Wilder’s campaign summary lists "Single Payer, Universal Health care at the state level" among issues she would support or propose for New York State.
SourceKimberly Wilder frames her economic agenda around affordability, social innovation, and reducing systemic barriers for New Yorkers. Her campaign specifically proposes laws to make life more affordable and to strengthen caregiver career pathways in healthcare, eldercare, disability services, and education-related care work.
Kimberly Wilder supports immigrant-neighbor advocacy and due-process protections, including efforts to limit harmful or rights-violating ICE activity in New York communities. She says local governments should adopt rules for police responses to ICE incidents and supports state-level action to keep ICE under control in New York.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Wilder's campaign site lists advocating for immigrant neighbors and protecting due process among her projects and history as a candidate for New York State Assembly District 2.
SourceIn her VOTE411 response, Wilder said local governments should create laws to keep federal ICE agents from harming communities or violating any resident's civil rights.
SourceWilder cited OLA-proposed legislation for Riverhead and other eastern Suffolk towns instructing local police what to do when ICE incidents occur as an example of a law she would support.
SourceThe Ballot Brief profile for Wilder, identified as the Voter Options candidate for New York Assembly District 2, lists immigration and due-process advocacy as one of her top priorities from the campaign site.
SourceKimberly Wilder supports renewable and sustainable energy for New York, including solar and wind, and frames climate policy as requiring public education, corporate accountability, and state support for renewables. Her campaign materials also state opposition to new nuclear plants.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Wilder states that New York should use and support renewable energy wherever possible, including solar, wind, and other sustainable renewable energy sources.
SourceWilder's campaign summary says she supports sustainable and renewable energy and opposes any new nuclear plants.
SourceKimberly Wilder, a 2026 Voter Options Party candidate for New York State Assembly District 2, lists education-related experience including founding Riverhead Area School Info/RASi and names children's online data minimization among her priorities. Her public education positions emphasize improving student services and school climate, supporting dual-language/bilingual programs, increasing community input in school leadership, and favoring counseling/social-work or facilities investments over armed school resource officers.
Specific Actions & Proposals
In a Riverhead school board candidate questionnaire, Wilder said her goals included better serving students, improving district customer service, and addressing safety and school climate with long-term healing strategies.
SourceWilder said bilingual programs serve students and the community better than only traditional English-as-a-second-language classes and later urged the community to help save Riverhead's Dual Language Program.
SourceAs coordinator of Riverhead Area School Info/RASi, Wilder called for students, parents, faculty, staff, and the community to help set criteria and provide feedback in the search for a new superintendent.
SourceWilder argued that money allocated for armed school resource officers would be better aimed at more social workers and guidance counselors, more school space, or expanding the Dual Language Program.
SourceIn her 2026 VOTE411 response for New York Assembly District 2, Wilder listed data minimization, especially protecting children's data online, among her top priorities if elected.
SourceKimberly Wilder’s public-safety-related positions emphasize due process, civil rights, immigrant protections, privacy/data minimization, and community-based safety measures rather than punitive approaches. A candidate profile source also reported that, as of September 9, 2026, her campaign website did not have a dedicated Public Safety issue page.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Wilder said she would encourage local governments to create laws preventing ICE agents from harming communities or violating residents’ civil rights, citing OLA-proposed legislation instructing local police how to respond to ICE incidents.
SourceWilder supported school policies to address gang concerns through positive measures such as expanded dual language programs, after-school programs, and graduation support rather than vague discipline based on law-enforcement information or perceived gang clothing.
SourceWilder listed due process and social justice among her top priorities if elected to New York Assembly District 2.
SourceVOTE411 Voter Guide
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/candidate-detail.do?id=73189338Fetched: biography, education, location
Blue Voter Guide
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_2/51854/830Fetched: votingRecord
Newsday
https://newsday.atexcloud.io/opinion/the-point/five-towns-2026-elections-martin-oliner-kimberly-wilder-oakdale-merge-hasxcdagFetched: campaignFinance
Kimberly Wilder for NY State Assembly - There should be a law
https://votewilder.com/there-should-be-a-law/Fetched: issuePositions
Georgiana Circle: Women Healing History - Kimberly Wilder for Assembly: Campaign Summary
https://georgianacircle.wordpress.com/tag/candidates-for-ny-assembly/Fetched: issuePositions
Georgiana Circle: Women Healing History - Did you ever feel like your idea could have saved someone in the news cycle?
https://georgianacircle.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/did-you-ever-feel-like-your-idea-could-have-saved-someone-in-the-news-cycle/Fetched: issuePositions
Kimberly Wilder for NY State Assembly campaign website
https://votewilder.com/there-should-be-a-law/Fetched: issuePositions
Branch candidate profile for Kimberly Wilder, New York Member of Assembly District 2
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-2/candidates/kimberly-wilderFetched: issuePositions
Georgiana Circle
https://georgianacircle.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/kimberly-wilder-for-assembly-campaign-summary/Fetched: issuePositions
RiverheadLOCAL
https://riverheadlocal.com/2023/05/11/in-their-own-words-2023-school-board-candidate-kimberly-wilder/Fetched: issuePositions
Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-dual-language-program-at-riverhead-central-school-district/u/32473202Fetched: issuePositions
Riverhead Area School Info/RASi
https://riverheadrasi.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/lets-start-the-search/Fetched: issuePositions
Riverhead Area School Info/RASi
https://riverheadrasi.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/guns-taxes-and-youth/Fetched: issuePositions
Kimberly Wilder for NY State Assembly
https://votewilder.com/there-should-be-a-law/Fetched: issuePositions
OntheWilderSide
https://www.onthewilderside.com/2025/05/15/a-write-in-campaign-for-kilmar-abrego-garcia/Fetched: issuePositions