Jumaane Williams

NYC Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams, is a first-generation Brooklynite of Grenadian heritage who became a community organizer and later served as the Executive Director of NYS Tenants & Neighbors. He also served at the NYC Council from 2010 to 2019, where he sponsored the Community Safety Act, which ended the abuse of Stop, Question & Frisk in communities of color and created the NYPD’s Office of Inspector General to investigate unlawful and unethical behavior.