Tenant and Community Organizer
Based out of Poughkeepsie, New York. Originally from a tourist town in southern Appalachia, June was politicized as a teenager by rapid gentrification and the cruel human cost of the housing crisis. After traveling the country working on electoral campaigns, most notably Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run, June settled down in the Hudson Valley in 2021 to develop long-term organizing programs that grow working class political power. In the years since, they helped pass tenant protection laws throughout the valley and organized the first ever legally mandated rent reduction in the country. As one of the few tenant organizers in the Mid-Hudson Valley, they help tenants organize associations throughout the region and play an active role in the statewide movement for increased tenant protections. June is also an avid lover of local history and spends their free time rummaging through local bookstores and private library rooms to uncover the long history of tenant struggle in the Hudson Valley. When not organizing or reading, you can find June deep in the woods on a mossy rock by a gurgling brook.