WORKING FAMILIES PARTY ENDORSES LAURIE CUMBO FOR CITY COUNCIL

(Brooklyn, NY) – Today, The Working Families Party (WFP) announced its support for Laurie Cumbo, 35th City Council District Candidate. WFP’s early support for Cumbo follows two key union endorsements earlier this month from Hotel and Motel Trades Council and SEIU’s 32BJ. Today’s, WFP endorsement only strengthens Cumbo’s continued support from progressive organizations.    

“The endorsement of the Working Families Party is particularly significant in our district which has been represented by a WFP candidate for over a decade,” Laurie Cumbo 35th City Council District Candidate said. “Having the support of the WFP, an organization that has tirelessly fought for paid sick leave, workers rights, immigrant rights and making sure the wealthiest pay their fair share, go hand in hand with my own platform. In the City Council, I will work to bring resources back to the District to ensure our schools thrive, our small business community grows and our communities are safe. I thank the WFP for their support and I am deeply honored to receive their endorsement today.”  

“Laurie Cumbo has an incredible record of building community,” Bill Lipton, Working Families Party New York State Director said. “On the City Council, she’ll be a champion for what every strong community needs: good jobs, great public schools, safe and fair policing.”  

The Working Families Party is a progressive organization that fights for the issues that concern New York City's working class families. WFP considers the records and plans of candidates and supports only those who stand up for New York’s working families on issues such as good jobs, affordable housing, fair taxes and, quality schools.  

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.