Rebecca Seawright is the Assembly member for the 76th District of the New York State Assembly. The district includes portions of the

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, Roosevelt Island and Yorkville in

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Life and career

Seawright formerly served as the New York State Director of the National Women's Political Caucus and a staffer in the New York State Assembly. She also worked in

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, including for

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Lloyd Bentsen. Seawright serves on the boards of

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and the CUNY School of Law Board of Visitors.

New York Assembly

Assemblyman Micah Kellner decided not to seek re-election in 2014, and Seawright entered the race to succeed him. She defeated three other candidates to receive the Democratic nomination. Seawright would go on to win the general election with nearly 67% of the vote. Seawright was sworn into office on January 1, 2015. She is a member of the Banking, Consumer Affairs and Protection, Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, Judiciary, and Tourism, Parks, Arts, and Sports Development Committees. She is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Fraud Protection and also sits on the Assembly's Work group on operations. She is a member of the Legislative Women's Caucus and Bipartisan Pro-Choice Legislative Caucus.

2020 office vandalism

In August 2020, Seawright's electoral office was vandalized with paint and an anti-Semitic note. Seawright is not Jewish, but was targeted for supposedly mentioning a synagogue in a fundraising letter. The suspect was later caught. The incident led to a collaboration with Speaker of the New York State Assembly

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to create the Museum of Tolerance in New York City.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seawright, Rebecca Living people Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly Politicians from Manhattan 21st-century American politicians Women state legislators in New York (state) 21st-century American women politicians 1962 births