RITA JOSEPH

Rita Joseph is a proud public school graduate of the now-closed Sarah J. Hale High School. She holds a BS in Liberal Arts from St. Francis College and a dual Master's in General and Special Education from Touro College. Rita currently lives in Prospect Lefferts Gardens where she raises her 4 children... Rita Joseph is a teacher, mother, and advocate. She is the Democratic New York City Council Member for District 40 (Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Crown Hts)... After immigrating to the U.S. from Haiti in her youth, Rita became civically engaged and began her life of advocacy. While growing up in Flatbush, Rita quickly recognized the power of activism. At just 19 years old, she organized her first rally with a group she founded, Haitian Enforcement Against Racism, in order to protest the FDA's discriminatory "bad blood" rules that prevented people of Haitian descent from donating blood. The rally succeeded in its mission, and the FDA rescinded the racist rule. Since..

Primary location: Brooklyn United States