Child Victims Act
Survivor-centered advocacy and public education around the Child Victims Act and the broader fight to expand access to accountability and justice for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Bread & Roses Project / Experience
Social Movements & Advocacy
Legislative advocacy, grassroots movements and public action for voting rights, survivor justice, reproductive freedom, immigrant rights, economic fairness and accountability.
LEGISLATIVE & ISSUE CAMPAIGNS
Legislative and issue-based campaigns
The work connects community concerns with campaigns for legislative change, including coalition meetings, public advocacy, constituent engagement, education and action.
Dignity Not Detention
Support for the statewide campaign against immigration detention contracts, alongside know-your-rights education, legal-observer participation and rapid-response organizing.
Working Families Guarantee & Tax the Rich
Organizing around the Working Families Party’s economic-justice agenda: public investment, affordability, tax fairness and policies that support working people.
Environmental justice and public action
Community mobilization, constituent pressure and coalition advocacy around climate protections, environmental priorities and government accountability.
FROM THE STREETS TO THE STATEHOUSE
Public action is part of the policy process.
Rallies and demonstrations help people find one another. Sustainable movements also need the less visible work: volunteer coordination, public messaging, relationships with advocates and legislators, and consistent follow-through.
Explore speeches and public-facing organizing →Women’s rights · January 18, 2020 · Glens Falls, New York
Opening the Women’s March: “This is what equality looks like.”
Christine delivered opening remarks at the 2020 Women’s March at Crandall Park pond in Glens Falls, speaking about inequality and the realities facing survivors. She addressed the crowd with a megaphone, calling attention to the need for equality and action.
Civil liberties · Community defense · Survivor advocacy
Rights must mean something in practice.
Bread & Roses connects public advocacy with practical support, including immigrant-rights education, legal-observer participation, rapid-response organizing, and support for people navigating difficult institutions.
Immigration, asylum and community support
Christine's advocacy includes assisting Haitian immigrants with asylum declarations, organizing against detention and deportation, and connecting community members with information and support. Her work includes support for Dignity Not Detention, a statewide campaign to end the use of New York facilities for immigration detention, alongside rapid-response and know-your-rights organizing. The focus is dignity, informed choices and protecting people's rights.
Survivor-centered organizing and accountability
Work concerning domestic and sexual violence, reproductive freedom and human rights is part of the broader organizing practice. Public education, organizing and institutional accountability are presented without exposing survivors' private information.
Glens Falls · January 6, 2022
In America, the people determine elections.
Christine's remarks demanded accountability from elected officials, including a call for Rep. Elise Stefanik to resign, and affirmed that voters determine the outcome of American elections. The speech called for election accountability and public responsibility.
ALBANY, NEW YORK · COMMUNITY ADVOCACY
Community organizing, training, and public accountability
Organizing is not limited to demonstrations. It also means educating neighbors, coordinating public pressure, supporting community members, and bringing concrete requests to elected officials.
Working Families Guarantee & Tax the Rich
Christine’s WFP and economic-justice organizing includes advocacy around the Working Families Guarantee and Tax the Rich agenda, connecting affordability demands with public services and legislative priorities.
#StopStefanik and constituent organizing
Through the #StopStefanik coalition, Christine helped coordinate local actions and working groups focused on constituent outreach, media engagement, letters to the editor and holding elected officials accountable.
Climate and environmental justice
Albany-area organizing has included climate and environmental advocacy, community events and mobilization connected to public officials. This work sits alongside the broader fight for affordable, healthy communities.
Child Victims Act and survivors’ rights
Survivor-centered advocacy related to New York’s Child Victims Act, which expanded access to legal remedies for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Immigration Rights & Rapid Response
Immigrant-rights education, know-your-rights resources, rapid-response organizing, legal-observer participation, and assistance with Haitian asylum declarations are part of Christine’s broader community-defense work.
SWWPA and public demonstrations
As a SWWPA co-chair, Christine helped organize more than 50 actions and events, coordinating speakers, volunteers, venues, permits, safety, press and community partners.
Training & Public Education
Field-lead education and a multi-part Protesting 101 series are examples of turning experience into practical organizing tools and community learning.
Advocacy, Rights & Public Policy
Lasting change requires more than a single march or election. Christine’s work connects grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, public education, direct action, and community support around concrete demands for justice and accountability.
Women’s voting rights: centennial feature and reporting January 6 accountability speech
Black Lives Matter, 518 AID and Darryl Mount
Christine has helped organize Black Lives Matter actions and mobilize communities against systemic inequality in Warren County and the surrounding region, including Fort Edward demonstrations and work with 518 AID. Demands for accountability following Darryl Mount Jr.'s death also shaped regional organizing in Saratoga Springs.
Women's marches and Planned Parenthood
Women's-rights organizing, reproductive-freedom advocacy and public speaking, including the January 2020 Women's March in Glens Falls. Christine's message focused on sustained participation: volunteer, organize and vote.
2020 Women's March coverageRapid response and know your rights
Immigrant-rights solidarity, rapid-response organizing, legal-observer education, community defense and know-your-rights training. This includes support for the Dignity Not Detention campaign to end New York immigration-detention contracts and advocacy connected to the New York for All Act.
“This Is What Inequality Looks Like”
Issue organizing and public speaking in Warren County addressing inequality, dignity, community investment and accountability. This work connects public speaking with community demands for meaningful public investment and accountability.
A century of the 19th Amendment
Learn about the centennial, the unequal access that followed ratification and how Christine's women's-movement advocacy connects to continuing political participation.
Read the centennial feature and news coverage