New York State Socialists In Office (NYSSIO) is an alliance of elected officials who: (a) are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and (b) have been endorsed – either during their campaigns or post-election — by the New York City DSA or the Mid-Hudson Valley DSA.

NYSSIO consists of both a State SIO Committee (for lawmakers in the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate) and a City SIO Committee (for New York City Council Members). As of January 2026, NYSSIO membership included the following 10 elected officials:

• 8 State SIOs (State Senators Julia Salazar, Jabari Brisport and Kristen Gonzalez, and State Assembly Members Emily Gallagher, Phara Souffrant Forrest, Marcela Mitaynes, Sarahana Shrestha, and Claire Valdez)
• 2 City SIO (New York City Council Members Alexa Avilés and Tiffany Cabán)

A very notable former member of NYSSIO was Zohran Mamdani, who was elected Mayor of New York City in 2025.

The SIO Committees work closely with the New York State legislature “to advance a socialist vision for working class people across [the] state.” The Committees include not only the elected officials themselves, but also some of their key staffers who are DSA members. Moreover, elected legislators who are members of DSA but were not endorsed by that organization during their election campaigns, are permitted to apply for admittance to NYSSIO following their election.

The SIO Committees meet on a regular basis; the State Committee, for instance, holds weekly virtual meetings and monthly in-person meetings. “During meetings,” writes CityandState.com editor Peter Sterne, “members often discuss pending bills and strategize on how to win DSA’s legislative priorities. The committees are democratically run, with any member – not just those in elected office – able to suggest that the committee adopt a collective position on a certain issue or piece of legislation.”

NYSSIO’s values and agendas are spelled out in its 2024-2025 legislative platform. The list below enumerates many of the alliance’s top priorities, and provides a quote articulating its position on each:

• Climate: “As capitalism and fealty to corporate profits plunge us deeper into climate crisis, we are fighting to ensure a sustainable future through policies that move us off fossil fuels now and transfer ownership of our energy system to the public.”
• Criminal Legal Reform: “The criminal legal system has created and implemented racist policies and practices that disproportionately impact people of color and low income communities, all supported by an interconnected web of laws and institutions. These laws must be dismantled by the legislature, and affirmative steps must be taken to end the decades-long trauma caused by the criminal legal system, police brutality, and mass incarceration.”
• Voting Rights for Incarcerated People: “Disenfranchisement of people because they have felony convictions or are incarcerated is an ugly and stark vestige of chattel slavery and Jim Crow in this country.”
• Economic Justice: “We must increase taxes on the wealthy and promote the equal distribution of wealth, ownership, and control in order to bring about true democracy: economic democracy.”
• Education & Child Care: “Past generations fought for—and won—free education for all children in public schools because they recognized that education is a basic right that cannot be left to market forces or reserved solely to those who can afford it. Today, that same struggle continues for early childhood education through higher education.”
• Ending Charter School Expansion: “Our public education system is at risk of being privatized, and transformed into a for-profit system. Wealthy individuals have spent years promoting privatized ‘charter schools,’ and making strategic campaign donations to try to accelerate this troubling trend.”
• Universal Child Care: “[E]xpand New York State’s capacity over a period of four years and create a system where child care is truly universal and free at the point of service—just like our public school system—and where early childhood educators are paid adequate wages that are at parity with that of public school teachers.”
• End the Failed “War on Drugs”: “The drug war is also the main fuel behind our mass incarceration and over-policing crisis, with drug possession as the most-arrested offense in the U.S. and Black people disproportionately targeted. Our socialist vision for ending the drug war rejects all carceral approaches, is rooted in compassion, and respects the autonomy and dignity of people who use drugs.”
• Healthcare Coverage for Illegal Immigrants: “Today, 154,000 New Yorkers are uninsured because of their immigration status. Federal programs like Medicaid currently exclude undocumented immigrants. As a result, many delay care or avoid it altogether. Coverage for All would create a state-funded Essential Plan for all New Yorkers making up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, irrespective of immigration status.”
• Housing: “We believe that all New Yorkers should have a safe, stable, and affordable place to live. In order for this to happen, the power of the real estate industry must be reduced, and tenants must be empowered to organize for improved conditions and resident control. This requires investments in public and supportive housing, funding for rental assistance, and key tenant protections.”
• Immigration: “All people deserve an equal, dignified existence and the ability to live free of the harassment of state authorities—regardless of their immigration status. Centuries of capitalism and imperialism, and their continuance today, have created a global system of unequal development which manifests in social, political, and economic instability. Climate change caused by capitalist industry is destroying ecosystems and ways of life worldwide. Those who come to the United States are refugees from the brutal conditions that are in large part the consequence of our country’s policies. We are fighting for legislation that expands rights and protections to all, regardless of when they migrate, to end the stratification of workers on the basis of citizenship status.”
• Minimum Wage Hike: “[Raise the wages of] food service workers to $15/hour.”
• Abolish Prison Slavery: “The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned slavery over 150 years ago, but with a major exception – prison slavery. New York has continued to exploit incarcerated workers, for example by paying such workers pennies to manufacture hand sanitizer during the pandemic. This is an abomination.”
• Reproductive Justice: “The Socialists In Office believe in a woman’s right to an abortion without any stigma or apology, as well as the development of robust services and programming networks to further codify reproductive healthcare protections.”