Darializa Chevalier

Darializa is a working-class Afro-Latina who has been organizing in upper Manhattan for a fairer, more equitable, and more affordable New York City since she was a teenager.

Raised by working-class Dominican immigrant parents, Darializa’s experience seeing loved ones struggle with immigration issues, socioeconomic inequality, and structural racism shaped her worldview and deepened her commitment to organizing for a better future.

From successfully organizing to take down the statue of J. Marion Sims — a 19th century gynecologist who experimented on enslaved women without anesthesia — that had stood for 100+ years in Central Park, to working to free U.S. permanent resident Abdikadir Mohamed from his 1.5 year ICE detention caused by Trump’s 2017 ‘Muslim ban,’ to her current work as an investigator at a public defender’s office in Harlem, her career has always centered around fighting for New Yorkers in one form or another.