Listen to African American Taiquan Coleman — born and raised and residing in Brooklyn, New York — whose ancestors migrated to Brooklyn three generations ago, share about working for a New York State Senator in March of 2020 and giving out flyers about Covid-19 to seniors centers at the beginning of the pandemic in New York. He talks about speaking with hundreds of constituents as the Director of Constituent Services in 2020 and 2021 and connecting people with food and necessities, such as diapers through the nonprofit Little Essentials in Brooklyn, New York. He also talks about attending graduate school online during the pandemic and what is was like to campaign in 2020.
“The budget of a city or a state is a moral document." Taiquan quotes his professor of public policy from graduate school
