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Today’s Limit Breaker is Johanna Carmona. We talk about community and strength through struggle.

Website: https://johannacarmonaforassembly.com/home
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2020 June Primary (6/28) - Vote!

Johanna Carmona is running to succeed Cathy Nolan in the New York State Assembly. She was born and raised in Sunnyside, where she and her family live to this day. Johanna’s parents are Colombian immigrants who with the help of our incredible community, raised two daughters who are first-generation Americans. At an early age, Johanna’s mother suffered a serious stroke that left her permanently disabled, and her family's lives were forever changed. Johanna’s mother was in the hospital for three years. As her father worked two jobs to make sure his wife had the care she needed, he leaned on this community to ensure his daughters were cared for. Their community supported her family through volunteer babysitters, food pantries, and after school programs.

She has a proven track record of getting results for people who need help - first as Assemblywoman Nolan’s intern and then as her Hispanic community liaison where she helped connect people to the community programs that helped her family when they needed it most.

Next in law school where Johanna continued to help individuals in the human rights and immigration clinic filing visas for victims of human trafficking, raising money for local community programs, and working in the tax clinic filing taxes for people with low incomes. After graduation, Johanna worked to get justice for victims of sexual assault and child abuse at the King's County DA's SVU, and helped 9/11 first responders get the medical care they're owed. Even now, as she campaigns, Johanna is representing survivors under the child victim act and children who are victims of abuse.