Darializa Avila Chevalier
Born (1993-12-03) December 3, 1993 (age 32)
Florida, U.S.
Education Columbia University (BA)
City University of New York (MPhil)
Political party
Democratic
Other political
affiliations
Democratic Socialists of America
Website darializaforcongress.com

Darializa Avila Chevalier[a] (born December 3, 1993) is an American politician and activist. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, she is the Democratic nominee for New York's 13th congressional district in 2026, having defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the primary.

Born and raised in Florida, Avila Chevalier moved to New York City in 2012 to study at Columbia College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern studies. She is a doctoral student in sociology at the City University of New York, studying the way black immigrants from Latin America are affected by the U.S. criminal justice system and deportation.

Early life and education

Avila Chevalier was born and raised in Florida to working-class Dominican immigrant parents.[1] Her father is a truck driver and her mother a caseworker. Her parents are divorced.[2] She also lived in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela[3] and speaks fluent Spanish.[4] Her maternal grandfather was a member of the resistance movement against Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and his successor Joaquín Balaguer, leading the family to emigrate to the US.[5][6]

Avila Chevalier spent her childhood in Miami, and many of her teenage years in Tallahassee, where she attended Hartsfield Elementary School and Fairview Middle School, graduating from James S. Rickards High School in 2012.[7][8][9][10]

Avila Chevalier moved to New York City to study at Columbia College,[1][11] where she was an illustrator for the Columbia Daily Spectator.[12] She graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern studies.[7] Avila Chevalier is now a doctoral student in sociology at the City University of New York,[13] studying the ways black immigrants from Latin America are affected by the U.S. criminal justice system and deportation.[14]

Student organizing

As a student at Columbia College, Avila Chevalier organized with Students for Justice in Palestine and Mobilized African Diaspora.[7] In 2014, Avila Chevalier lived in the Palestinian city of Nablus while interning for Tomorrow's Youth Organization to teach English to Palestinian toddlers and children.[4] She highlighted that time as formative in connecting the Palestinian experience to the American system, saying, "these are not only like systems, they are the same system. It was the same tear gas made in the USA that was being dropped on Gaza that was also being used against [Black Lives Matter] protesters in Ferguson."[4]

After graduation, she organized with BYP100.[15] In 2018, the group demanded removal of a Central Park statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century gynecologist who experimented with painful surgical techniques on enslaved women without consent or anesthesia, despite later administering anesthesia to his white patients.[16] Avila Chevalier and three other Black women protested in front of the statue dressed in blood-stained hospital gowns, reading passages from Sims's autobiography, medical journals, and other historical material that highlighted his dehumanization of enslaved women.[17] The statue was moved later that year.[18] In 2019, as an organizer for Families for Freedom, she protested to free Abdikadir Mohamed Felt, a Somali immigrant affected by President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban", from ICE detention.[19] Avila Chevalier later published an analysis of the convergence of US counterterrorism policy and immigration enforcement with Abdikadir Mohamed's encounter with CBP's Tactical Terrorism Response Team as a case study.[20]

Avila Chevalier participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment (April 17–30, 2024), part of the Columbia University protests against the Gaza war and genocide.

As an alumna, Avila Chevalier participated in the protests at Columbia University for a ceasefire and against the Gaza war,[21][22][23][11][24] for which she was targeted by Canary Mission, a pro-Israel doxing website.[15] On October 8, 2023, she attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation that was condemned by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and New York City Councilman Brad Lander, who is now Chevalier's fellow congressional candidate and campaign partner.[25][26][27] In November 2023, when Columbia suspended its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, she said the university should "protect speech and protect the right of faculty and students to address these issues in an open and frank way".[28] On April 30, 2024, riot police forcibly removed Avila Chevalier and other protesters from their position at the entrance to Hamilton Hall, bruising her and other protesters.[29]

Career

Avila Chevalier works as an investigator at the public defender legal organization Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem,[16] where she is a member of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – United Auto Workers Local 2325.[30][31] Her work has investigated cases of police brutality.[3]

Political career

Avila Chevalier is a member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA),[15][6] which she joined in 2025.[4] She has described her political views as having been informed by the Black radical tradition, specifically the writings of Angela Davis and Assata Shakur,[15] as well as her 2014 experience in Palestine.[4] In the 2025 New York City mayoral election, Avila Chevalier was an organizing lead on DSA member Zohran Mamdani's campaign for Mayor of New York City.[1][15][30][31] She ranked Brad Lander fifth on her ballot out of protest.[32]

On April 13, 2026, Avila Chevalier joined a protest by Jewish Voice for Peace asking Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer to vote against selling weapons to Israel. Police arrested protesters, including Avila Chevalier, whose shirt read "fund people not bombs".[11][33][34] In March 2026, she participated in a Columbia University rally calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Kordia.[35][36]

2026 congressional campaign

See also: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in New York § District 13
2026 Democratic primary results by precinct
  Avila Chevalier
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  Espaillat
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
  •   90–100%

Avila Chevalier ran in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th congressional district, challenging incumbent Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who has represented the district since 2017.[24][37][38][39] NY-13 encompasses Harlem and the southwest section of the Bronx and is one of the most Democratic districts in the country.[24] At 32, she would be one of the youngest members of Congress.[40] Avila Chevalier was the only challenger to outraise an incumbent in New York City during the first quarter of 2026.[41] An April 2026 internal campaign poll showed her trailing Espaillat by 18 percentage points after voters were read biographical statements about both candidates.[42]

Avila Chevalier was recruited to run by Justice Democrats,[30][41][43][6] who had previously helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win her 2018 election against an incumbent.[44] Avila Chevalier has been endorsed by New York mayor Zohran Mamdani,[44][45][46][47][48][49] United Auto Workers Region 9A,[50] the New York City Democratic Socialists of America,[5][51] and Jewish Voice for Peace Action.[1] She also has the support of former US representative Jamaal Bowman[1] and political commentator Hasan Piker.[52]

Outside groups spent heavily in the race. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus's political arm spent to support Espaillat,[53][54] while AIPAC spent at least $650,000 opposing Avila Chevalier.[55] AIPAC-associated donors also spent to support Espaillat.[56][57]

Espaillat retained support from several progressive Democrats, including Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar.[58] The Congressional Black Caucus also backed him in the primary.[59]

The race highlighted tensions within the Democratic Party between its "establishment" wing and democratic socialists.[60] Espaillat called Avila Chevalier's democratic socialism a "failed ideology".[61]

During the campaign, Avila Chevalier was the target of racism animated by anti-Haitian sentiment.[62][63][64] Some Espaillat supporters falsely claimed she was Haitian, questioned her fidelity to the Dominican community in New York City, and called her "Haitian" as a slur.[63][62][65] City & State reported that a senior adviser to Espaillat, Rusking Pimentel, made racist and Islamophobic comments about Avila Chevalier in Spanish language media.[64] Espaillat characterized some Avila Chevalier voters as "the gentrifiers" raising rents. Avila Chevalier supports federal funding to build more social housing.[66]

Several of Avila Chevalier's tweets from a deleted account, dating from 2018 to 2022, were points of contention in the campaign. Avila Chevalier criticized mainstream Democrats, calling Joe Biden "a rapist" in 2020 (though she later said she voted for him in that year's presidential election) and saying "fuck Kamala Harris" in 2021 after Harris gave a speech discouraging migration to the US. Avila Chevalier also advocated for social ownership of the means of production, prison abolition, police abolition, and border abolition. She rejected the view that Israel has a "right to exist" as a Jewish state.[67][68][69][70] She responded to coverage of her posts by saying, "I was young, yes, and I was a millennial with internet access" and dismissed the attention as "litigating the politics of the past instead of the politics of the future and the present".[67] New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reiterated his endorsement of her campaign following the report, citing her ongoing advocacy for immigrants and working-class New Yorkers.[68]

Avila Chevalier narrowly defeated Espaillat in the Democratic primary in an upset.[71] If elected in November, she will be the first socialist to represent the district since Vito Marcantonio in the 1950s.[72]

Political positions

Avila Chevalier is a democratic socialist.[73][74][75][76][77] She opposes all forms of deportation, detention, imprisonment, and the Gaza war.[15][78][79][80] She supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, universal housing, and fully funded schools.[46]

Foreign policy

Israel and Palestine

Avila Chevalier has been "unequivocal in condemning Israel as an apartheid state committing genocide".[81] In March 2026, during a forum with the Broadway Democrats political club, Avila Chevalier, when asked whether she condemned Hamas for the October 7 attacks, responded: "The premise of that question, to me, ignores the 75 years of occupation that the Palestinian people have been subjected to and the conditions that folks were living under before this genocide began."[81] When asked about condemning Hamas again in June, she said she did but added, "As far as I know, the US does not send a single dime to Hamas. What we fund is the Israeli military."[81]

Avila Chevalier has been active in protests against US support for Israel and strongly criticized Espaillat's support of Israel and acceptance of campaign funds from AIPAC during the primary.[21][82][83] In an interview with Jewish Currents, she said Espaillat "has used his time in Congress to give ICE billions, fund the Israeli military, and vote for Trump's crypto corruption—while being bankrolled by AIPAC and the real estate lobby".[84]

Avila Chevalier supports the Block the Bombs Act, which would limit the sale, transfer, or exporting of defense articles and services to Israel.[34] In June, American Priorities, a super PAC established to oppose AIPAC, pledged funding to support Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and Brad Lander.[85]

Ukraine

In 2022, Avila Chevalier tweeted that the reason the United States was involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine was that "the Cold War ended and we've been bullying Russia ever since".[69][86] In a 2026 interview, she said she believed Ukraine was a victim of Russia's violation of its sovereignty, and that diplomacy with Russia should be pursued.[87]

Housing

Avila Chevalier supports universal housing and federal funding to build more social housing.[66]

Billionaries

In an interview with Ryan Grim for the podcast Breaking Points, she agreed with Fran Lebowitz's suggestion that billionaires threatening to leave New York City should do so.[88]

Immigration

Avila Chevalier supports abolishing ICE.[89][90]

Avila Chevalier supports expanding pathways to citizenship for immigrants in the US.[46]

Avila Chevalier opposes all forms of deportation, saying in a June 2026 interview, "I have yet to come up with a reason for why deportation has been used in a way that isn't rooted in deeply racist ideology." When Astead Herndon asked her about the deportation of people convicted of breaking US criminal law, she responded that she opposed it, saying:

We have a criminal system. It isn't perfect, but it exists, and if it is one that we accept as the process by which we want to engage with these issues—issues of harm, issues of criminality, or what have you—then we need to make sure that it isn't one that is also discriminatory on the basis of where people were born.[91]

When asked about open borders, Avila Chevalier called free movement an "ideal vision", saying, "capital can move freely across the world, but people are trapped."[87] In 2025, Avila Chevalier wrote an op-ed in USA Today calling for the freedom of Mahmoud Khalil after he was taken from his home and detained by ICE, writing:

Immigration courts and detention centers have, for decades, been an abuse of administrative power. By targeting Mahmoud, Trump is now taking this abuse of power to a whole new level and making an example of him to silence those speaking out for the lives and human rights of Palestinians.[13]

Policing and public safety

Avila Chevalier supports prison abolition.[87]

Personal life

Avila Chevalier is Afro-Latina.[1][22] In 2018, she converted to Islam.[6][4]

Electoral history

2026 US House

2026 New York's 13th congressional district election
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Darializa Avila Chevalier 32,790 48.60
Democratic Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) 30,464 45.15
Democratic Oscar J. Romero Jr 2,340 3.47
Democratic Theo Bruce Chino-Tavarez 532 0.79
Total votes 67,473 100.0

Notes

  1. ^ In this Hispanic American name, the first or paternal surname is Avila and the second or maternal family name is Chevalier.

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