Community organizer Jibreel Jalloh of Canarsie, Brooklyn, filed Wednesday to challenge Assembly Member Jaime Williams in the June 2026 Democratic primary for District 59.

“We are knowing this true affordability crisis in our city, and I believe we have a lack of leadership right now that doesn’t address that,” he told City & State. “This campaign is going to be focused on the future, on bringing down the cost of living.”

Jalloh is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit The Flossy Organization , which focuses on grassroots activism on a number of issues facing southeast Brooklyn, such as gun violence, climate change and transportation struggles. He is also an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University.

Jalloh would be a more progressive alternative to Williams, a ri

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