Jason A. Richberg, County Legislator, 15th Legislative District

JASON A. RICHBERG

Democratic

BACKGROUND:

• Richberg, 39, of West Babylon, is a full-time legislator and was elected in 2020 in a special election to fill the seat of DuWayne Gregory. He is also running on the Working Families Party line.
• He was clerk for the county legislature from 2015 to 2020 and before that served as chief deputy clerk for a year and as Gregory’s chief of staff from 2010 to 2014.
• He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wilberforce University in Ohio and a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Claremont Lincoln University in California.

ISSUES:

• Richberg helped create a maternal mortality task force to find out why so many women die during pregnancy, childbirth and labor and said he will continue to work on this issue.
• He said he wants to spur economic empowerment by helping increase people’s access to education.
• He will continue to fight the rise in opioid addiction by helping to bring back support groups that shut down during the pandemic and to have more Narcan training sessions.

By Denise M. Bonilla

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Denise Bonilla has worked at Newsday since 2003 and covers the Town of Babylon, including the villages of Lindenhurst and Amityville.