Phara Souffrant Forrest

Rep @velazquez.house.gov has been an inspiring leader in Congress and a fierce defender of immigrants, tenants, and workers. It’s been an honor to work with her in Clinton Hill; our district is better for her service!

Today I stood with Starbucks workers in my district to say: enough is enough. They are fighting for living wages and fair schedules while Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccols makes $98 million a year. I’ll be supporting these workers until they get the contract they deserve.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Today is only the beginning.

Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

Let's BRING IT HOME FOR ZOHRAN and make a New York City that actually WORKS FOR WORKING NEW YORKERS!

Get out there and VOTE!

Your auntie down the hall, your favorite bodega worker, that guy who works in your building that you've never spoken to but feel a strange kinship with: BRING THEM ALL!

LFG

Wishing a joyful Diwali to all who celebrate! May this Festival of Lights bring you strength, healing, and the power to push back the darkness with joy and justice. ✨🪔

The president’s false charges against @newyorkstateag.bsky.social are a pathetic and desperate attempt to bully his political opponents. New Yorkers stand with Tish.

My statement:

Good morning Fort Greene! We have 6 weeks until the election - are you ready to elect @ZohranKMamdani our next mayor? Join me and tomorrow to make sure your neighbors are ready!

Sign up at socialists.nyc/zohran!

Team Phara is hiring! We are looking for a part-time community liaison to support the constituents of AD57, coordinate events, and represent our office in the community.

For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/communityliaison57

Happening NOW: New Yorkers Against ICE.

We’re at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has been ruthlessly kidnapping immigrant NYers, to demand access to the 10th floor—where people are being inhumanely detained—and block ICE vans from leaving.

#ICEoutofNY

Wonderful overflow crowd for our NYC Premiere. With @juliasalazar.bsky.social @phara4assembly.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social Jared Trujillo, Tami Gold, and many more.

Labor Day isn’t just a holiday. It’s a reminder that every right we have was won by workers who organized, struck, and sacrificed. 🌹 💪🏽

From nurses to teachers, delivery drivers to construction crews, working people built this city and keep it running every single day.👷🏾‍♀️👩🏽‍⚕️

How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/s...

Imagine sitting in a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons having a meltdown because the next mayor is promising to make things affordable for working families. There’s something wrong with these people.

Brooklyn mass shooting: Three dead, nine injured after gunfire erupts in restaurant | amNewYork Police in Brooklyn are scrambling to find the suspects behind a mass shooting inside a restaurant early on Sunday morning that left three people dead and nine

www.amny.com/news/brookly...

I’m devastated by today’s shooting in Crown Heights and am in touch w/ first responders. Praying for those who were killed & injured and their loved ones. Our response to the scourge of gun violence must include real investments in jobs & social services to keep our people whole.

🚨 Tickets are going fast for my State of the District Event! Don’t miss out! 🚨

📆 July 24th
⏰ 6 to 9PM
📍 BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place
👉🏾 bit.ly/pharasotd

True to form, Andrew Cuomo once again refuses to accept that ‘no’ really does means ‘no’.

Housing is a human right! But too many of us are still fighting just to stay in our homes.

Join me TOMORROW at 6PM for a Housing Justice Town Hall.

📍 647 Fulton St
🗓️ Tomorrow @ 6PM
🎟️ bit.ly/pharaHJ4A

Bring your neighbors! 🗣️🏠

Does Anyone Answer New York's Unemployment Hotline? One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department's unemployment help line reached a real person.

Kyra is one of dozens of constituents my office has helped to get UI benefits this year. The single most common reason people call is that they qualified for UI but can't get through to a human at @nyslabor.bsky.social. Something has to change! @juliarock.bsky.social

nysfocus.com/2025/07/14/n...

Weird threat to make since Hakeem already went after @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and I. How’d that go for him, again?

2022 Primary Results:
SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4%
AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2%

If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.

Last weekend, I had the honor of joining Michael Brun and the BAYO Tour on stage at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Thank you @phara4assembly.bsky.social and Councilmember Rita Joseph for getting me there! 🇭🇹

New York could test the four-day workweek The state assemblymember behind the idea said it could serve as "a model not just for our whole state, but for the country."

Read all about it here 👇🏾

www.newsweek.com/new-york-tes...

My 4-day workweek bill is making moves! Imagine more time to live instead of just work. NY can lead the way for dignity, rest, joy, and prosperity!

Let's go! 🔥💪🏾

Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!

Happy 4th everyone! Let’s kick back for a few days, relax, maybe get 🌭 or 🍦and watch the fireworks! Important to slow down and take joy where we can these days. For me, that’s spending time with David, Charles, and my family. On Monday, we get back to work!

“As a state legislator, I refuse to be immobilized,” Assemblymember @phara4assembly.bsky.social calls on her colleagues in government to join her in witnessing the out-of-control arrests happening in immigration courts!

We have options: we can pass the New York for All act & protect immigrants!

2/ call the legislature into special session so that we can take the action we should’ve taken before we went home.

If she won’t, the least she can do come here and explain to this boy’s mother why she won’t fight for families like theirs.

1/ At immigration court today, I watched the judge grant a young boy two years to finish his application. ICE agents grabbed him from his mother, put him in a freight elevator, and disappeared him.

I am calling on Gov Hochul to come here, see what is happening in her state, and

✨Come through, neighbors!✨

We’re hosting our second State of the District to share what we’ve been fighting for and hear directly from you. Your voice shapes our work. 💪🏾🗣️