New York State Assembly, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

Jessica earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and her master's degree in public and nonprofit management and public policy from the NYU Wagner School. She lives in Jackson Heights with her partner and child.

Jessica is the former executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York’s City College and the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Jessica González-Rojas is an assemblymember in State Assembly District 34. She was first elected in 2020 and is serving her 2nd term.

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Supports funding for a "Homes Guarantee," a "Green New Deal," fully funded schools, and tuition-free college.

Supports collaboration with immigrant advocacy groups to strengthen economic policies for working people.

Supports raising the minimum wage statewide.

Supports the Empire Child Tax Credit, which is now $175 million.

Supports banning non-disclosure agreements.

- Supports funding for a "Green New Deal."
- Supports collaboration with immigrant advocacy groups to strengthen economic policies for working people.
- Supports raising the minimum wage statewide.
- Supports the Empire Child Tax Credit.
- Supports banning non-disclosure agreements.

Economy

Supports initiatives that focus on STEM and clean energy to address environmental justice for underserved communities.

Supports the Climate and Community Investment Act.

Supports transitioning to 100% renewable energy, halting fossil fuel infrastructure, publicly owning utilities, and taxing the wealthy to create millions of good-paying jobs.

Plans to implement the "Green New Northern" by limiting traffic on Northern Blvd to emergency and delivery vehicles, buses, bicycles, and pedestrians to enhance street safety and air quality.

Supports limiting traffic on Northern Blvd to enhance street safety and air quality.

Supports congestion pricing to reduce traffic, pollution, and improve public transit, with some exemptions for taxi workers.

- Supports initiatives that focus on STEM and clean energy to address environmental justice for underserved communities.
- Supports the Climate and Community Investment Act.
- Supports transitioning to 100% renewable energy, halting fossil fuel infrastructure, publicly owning utilities, and taxing the wealthy to create millions of good-paying jobs.
- Supports limiting traffic on Northern Blvd to enhance street safety and air quality.
- Supports congestion pricing to reduce traffic, pollution, and improve public transit, with some exemptions for taxi workers.

Energy & the Environment

Supports access to abortion and sponsored a bill to fund abortions for out-of-state women.

Supports the New York Health Act, which would establish a single-payer healthcare system in New York.

Supports declaring the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

Supports declaring the "opioid epidemic" a public health emergency.

Supports expanding the Essential Plan to include low-income New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.

Sponsored a law with Senator Brouk to provide continual health coverage in Medicaid or CHIP from birth to age 6.

Co-sponsored a bill to provide continual health coverage in Medicaid or CHIP from birth to age 6.

Believes inadequate and unreliable transportation options in low-income and communities of color, along with the uneven distribution of transportation facilities, contribute to negative health outcomes like increased asthma rates.

- Supports access to abortion and sponsored a bill to fund abortions for out-of-state women.
- Supports the New York Health Act, which would establish a single-payer healthcare system in New York.
- Supports declaring the "opioid epidemic" a public health emergency.
- Supports expanding the Essential Plan to include low-income New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.
- Co-sponsored a bill to provide continual health coverage in Medicaid or CHIP from birth to age 6.
- Believes inadequate and unreliable transportation options in low-income and communities of color, along with the uneven distribution of transportation facilities, contribute to negative health outcomes like increased asthma rates.

Healthcare

Supports a public finance system that matches small donations, believing it will encourage candidates to raise money from constituents rather than seeking large donors from outside their district.

- Supports a public finance system that matches small donations, believing it will encourage candidates to raise money from constituents rather than seeking large donors from outside their district.

Voting & Elections

Supports bail reform, believing it is necessary to prevent pre-trial detention from putting people at risk.

Supports decriminalizing unlicensed massage parlors.

Supports decriminalizing sex work to ensure safety and dignity for sex workers and to allow for the prosecution of adult and minor trafficking.

Sponsored legislation requiring pamphlets of road rules in multiple languages to be distributed to moped users upon purchase or rental.

Supports Sammy’s Law, which lowers speed limits in residential areas, saying "slightly lower speeds can make a big difference."

- Supports bail reform, believing it is necessary to prevent pre-trial detention from putting people at risk.
- Supports decriminalizing unlicensed massage parlors.
- Supports decriminalizing sex work to ensure safety and dignity for sex workers and to allow for the prosecution of adult and minor trafficking.
- Sponsored legislation requiring pamphlets of road rules in multiple languages to be distributed to moped users upon purchase or rental.
- Supports Sammy’s Law, which lowers speed limits in residential areas, saying "slightly lower speeds can make a big difference."

Public Safety

Supports prioritizing school integration and advocating for equitable funding for New York City public schools.

Supports making the City University of New York (CUNY) system tuition-free.

Supports funding a pilot program to provide targeted guaranteed income to low-income parents who are pregnant.

- Supports prioritizing school integration and advocating for equitable funding for New York City public schools.
- Supports universal school meals.
- Supports making the City University of New York (CUNY) system tuition-free.
- Supports funding a pilot program to provide targeted guaranteed income to low-income parents who are pregnant.

Education

Supports the Western Queens Street Safety Plan, which aims to enhance street safety in partnership with local officials.

Supports the Western Queens Street Safety Plan.

Believes housing insecurity is a significant issue for low-income families.

- Supports the Western Queens Street Safety Plan.
- Believes housing insecurity is a significant issue for low-income families.

Housing & Urban Development

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Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

Jessica earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and her master's degree in Public and Nonprofit Management and Public Policy from the NYU Wagner School. She lives in Jackson Heights with her partner and child.

Jessica González-Rojas is the former Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York’s City College and the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Jessica González-Rojas is an assemblymember serving New York's 34th Assembly District. She was first elected in 2020 and is serving her 2nd term.

Secured funding for various programs in the state budget.

Supports policies that address climate change and protect the environment.

Supports a limiting traffic on Northern Blvd to enhance street safety and air quality.

Supports the implementation of a "Green New Northern" to address climate change and environmental issues.

Supports environmental reforms to address climate change.

- Supports initiatives that focus on STEM and clean energy to address environmental justice for underserved communities.
- Supports the Climate and Community Investment Act.
- Supports transitioning to 100% renewable energy, halting fossil fuel infrastructure, publicly owning utilities, and taxing the wealthy to create millions of good-paying jobs.
- Supports a limiting traffic on Northern Blvd to enhance street safety and air quality.
- Supports congestion pricing to reduce traffic, pollution, and improve public transit, with some exemptions for taxi workers.

Believes Republican-led hearings on New York’s COVID-19 response will be "a display of grandstanding and exaggeration, as political opportunists use the hearing to push their own agendas."

Supports COVID-19 mutual aid relief and outreach efforts.

- Supports access to abortion and sponsored a bill to fund abortions for out-of-state women.
- Supports the New York Health Act, which would establish a single-payer healthcare system in New York.
- Supports declaring the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.
- Supports expanding the Essential Plan to include low-income New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.
- Co-sponsored a bill to provide continual health coverage in Medicaid or CHIP from birth to age 6.
- Believes inadequate and unreliable transportation options in low-income and communities of color, along with the uneven distribution of transportation facilities, contribute to negative health outcomes like increased asthma rates.

Supports "true public campaign financing."

Supports a gold standard small donor public financing match program to level the playing field in elections.

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Supports public campaign financing to help Women of Color and grassroots leaders compete against political dynasties.

Supports reforming New York's campaign finance system to empower candidates from historically disenfranchised communities to run for office.

Opposes the state Public Campaign Financing Commission's recommendations, believing they allow large contributions to overshadow small ones and threaten progressive organizations like the Working Families Party.

Supports reforming the public campaign financing system to increase electoral participation, transparency, and accountability.

Supports advocating for the immigrant, working-class community.

Believes pre-trial detention "needlessly puts too many people at risk" and plans to advocate for criminal justice reforms.

Supports decriminalizing sex work and plans to pass the Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act.

Believes the cost of a college education is too high for many New Yorkers.

Opposes cuts to school aid and the elimination of the hold harmless provision.

Believes the incumbent Assembly Member failed to protect the community by voting to reduce public education budgets.

Believes redlining was a system of legally mandated racial segregation.

Supports NICE's extensive services, community organizing, and leadership development programs.

As of September 23, 2024, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Jessica González-Rojas was elected in 2020 to the New York State Assembly to represent the Queens neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmhurst, Astoria, and Woodside.

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