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LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS OF BROOKLYN ENDORSE LAURIE CUMBO FOR CITY COUNCIL

(Brooklyn, NY) – Last night, Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn (LID) announced its endorsement of Laurie Cumbo's 35th City Council District Candidacy. LID’s Endorsement comes just days after she received the Working Families Party Endorsement and follows three key union endorsements earlier this month from Hotel and Motel Trades Council, SEIU’s 32BJ, Steamfitters Local Union 638.   “I am humbled by the support of Lambda,” Laurie Cumbo 35th City Council District Candidate said. “They are an organization that has tenaciously fought for marriage equality, advocated for the rights and services of people living with HIV and AIDS, and worked to educate voters about LGBT and progressive reform issues. In the City Council, I will work with Lambda to fight for progressive policies that will strengthen the rights of all people while tenaciously fighting for those who have been marginalized. I thank Lambda for their support and I am excited to work with them this summer on my campaign and for years to come.”  

“Laurie Cumbo has a strong track record of fighting for LGBT equality,” Matthew McMorrow, President of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn said. “She has pledged to work with us and to educate her fellow City Councilmembers about the needs of our community. We are proud to endorse such a strong candidate who truly understands our issues and we are excited to work on her campaign.”  

Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn (LID) is Brooklyn’s largest lesbian and gay political organization. Founded by a group of activists in Boerum Hill in early 1978, we have grown to become one of the state’s largest LGBT political clubs. For over 35 years, LID has been the political voice of Brooklyn’s LGBT community. They have been built relationships with elected officials, endorsed and supported LGBT and pro-equality candidates for public office, spoken out against bigotry and violence, fought for marriage equality, advocated for the rights and services of people living with HIV and AIDS, lobbied elected officials for civil rights, registered voters, educated voters about LGBT issues and about candidates' positions, and built a coalition of LGBT, pro-equality, and progressive political allies.  

More on 35th
 City Council Candidate Laurie Cumbo:

  • Laurie Cumbo is a cultural leader, entrepreneur, activist, college professor, educator, lecturer and small business owner working in the not-for-profit sector. Cumbo has dedicated her life to community development and preserving the dynamic elements of diversity that have made Brooklyn, New York what it is today.
  • She has worked at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, WNET Channel 13, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery.
  • At the age of twenty-two, while pursuing her graduate studies at NYU, Cumbo used her course work and thesis as a guide for developing the business plan for MoCADA, Brooklyn’s first Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. She incorporated MoCADA as a 501c3 non-profit institution with enthusiastic support from the Brooklyn community of Bedford Stuyvesant and surrounding neighborhoods.
  • Cumbo served as a graduate professor in the School of Art & Design at Pratt Institute from 2001 – 2011 in the Arts and Cultural Management Program. She is also a member of ARTTABLE, the American Association of Museums, the National Alliance of African and African American Art Support Groups, the Cultural Equity Group, the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance and the Spelman College Alumni Association. She is an alumna of Achieving Leadership’s Purpose (ALP), Jack and Jill of America Brooklyn Chapter and Delta Sigma Theta Brooklyn Chapter Teen Lift.
  • She is a graduate of the Berkeley Carroll Day School in Park Slope and Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene. She is also a graduate of Spelman College with a degree in Fine Art. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. During her education she has studied at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands and the Fuji Studios in Florence, Italy.

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For more information about Laurie Cumbo for City Council please visit our website www.LaurieCumbo2013.com Address: 39 Broadway Suite 1740 New York, NY 10006 Phone: (212) 239-7323  
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