Now that’s a lot of acronyms.
I’m clearly terrible at maintaining this blog. Apologies.
Really excited about quite a few projects that are launching in the near future– in the meantime, thought I’d post a little of what I’ve been up to. More to come…
Joined the incredibly inspiring David Cho and Kevin Sanchez on NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi Show.
Today was my first day as the Communications and Outreach Associate for the Center for American Progress’ Youth Arm, Campus Progress.
Yes, this means I have temporarily left New York. I already miss the City and the incredible people who made it home.
I’ll keep positing pieces/ thoughts here (in time with more frequency). For now, suffice it to say that I’m really excited to have joined the CP team and look forward to what lays ahead!
I strongly believe that everything happens for a reason. After all, had it not been for John Kerry’s loss we wouldn’t have had a Barack Obama win.
As it turns out, David Yassky is not going to be the next City Comptroller. Nonetheless, I will forever be proud of my candidate and the campaign that we ran. The group of people on Team Yassky were phenomenal and the friendships I’ve been privileged to make are the kind one can only hope to stumble upon over the course of a life time. I’m proud to call David a mentor and friend, he really is an extraordinary public servant and one of the most genuine people I’ve ever met. I’m confident this isn’t the last we’re going to hear from him.
The campaign certainly helped shape the direction of the debate making sure that investments in biotechnology and green technology, advocating for more women and minority asset managers, and tackling the reality of pension reform were apart of the dialog.
I congratulate Councilman John Liu and Bill Deblassio for their victories.
As for me, I’m not done yet either. I’ll write more on the experience next week. In the meantime, just wanted to thank those of you who nominated me for City Hall’s 40 under 40. Honored to be in such great company on this year’s list.
I’ll leave you with (the always dependable) Barack Obama, for quote to move forward with.
“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. ”
–Barack Obama
For the record, and disregard anyone who tells you otherwise, when you’re on a campaign, you’re on a campaign. There’s really nothing else…which is why I can’t imagine doing this for anyone that I didn’t sincerely believe in. Luckily, I can only imagine doing that, because with each day that passes I become increasingly convinced that David Yassky can and must be the City’s next Comptroller.
Blogging will be (if not nonexistence) extremely light until September 15th (the day of New York City’s democratic primary). From now until then, I’ll be focused on working with an incredible team to bring the creativity and energy of the Obama campaign to local politics. This isn’t a campaign of operatives- it’s incredibly young and justifiably dedicated. We’re all in this for the right reasons- and you can only hope, that at the end of the day, that amounts to something.
Interested in volunteering? Shoot me an email: sara@davidyassky.com
Just posted a new piece on Global Grind.
“So no, Gay is not the black, but we are in a time. While we face different challenges as individuals and communities, we also reside in a moment where our President is pleading with us to come together to recognize that while our differences are pervasive they are not perverted… prejudice has no place in the United States of America. President Obama revisited this notion while addressing the NAACP last Thursday.”
Full piece here.
Also- blogging will likely be slower until September 15th (NYC Democratic Primary) but I will try to take some time out in the next week to tackle health care policy. The debate surrounding Health Care reform is extremely important and I think we should all try to understand the parameters of the debate, and more importantly we should all chime in.
I’m going to write more on this tonight– but in the meantime, wanted to share my first post for Global Grind on the Iranian elections.
Global Grind is Russel Simmon’s website, I’ll be contributing posts weekly.
I’m suspending my blog to go back to Washington and focus on the economic crisis…
Just kidding! On the verge of graduating, and it would appear that my course load is going to require my full attention.
Back in another 2 weeks.
So I’m back a week later than I had originally anticipated.
I’ve been in isolation for the last two weeks working on my thesis and I think I’ve arrived at point where I can once again attempt to multitask- new content to come, starting, well, now.
Sorry to have dropped off- I’ll be back, and more consistent with posting,this Monday.
Happy weekend everyone.
So I finally got around to cleaning up the categories on this blog- feel free to email me if you have suggestions on how I can make content easier to navigate.
I’m wrapping up an Honors thesis, helping with development at MYD, and trying to figure out what my next steps after graduation this May (hence the sporadic blogging) .
Anyways- I’ll be addressing climate change this Monday night at a Seder at City Winery. Tickets are kind of pricey but I believe that there’s a 50 dollar student ticket available if you’re interested in attending.