Michaelle C. Solages, 22nd Assembly District

MICHAELLE C. SOLAGES

Democratic

BACKGROUND:

• Solages, 35, of Elmont, is seeking her fifth term in the state Assembly and is also running on the Working Families and Independence party lines.
• Solages was the first person of Haitian descent to be elected to the Assembly.
• She earned a bachelor of science degree from Hofstra University and worked for a decade at Hofstra’s Axinn Library.

ISSUES:

• Supports investment in education. One of her long-term goals is to establish a comprehensive early childhood education system based on universal prekindergarten on Long Island.
• Solages sponsored legislation requiring all city, town and county industrial development agency meetings to be livestreamed and recorded in a measure to help increase transparency surrounding tax breaks given out by those agencies. The bill became law earlier this year.
• Other important issues for Solages include protecting women’s rights, ending gun violence in local communities and safeguarding the environment.