Public Advocate Tish James serves as the watchdog over New York City government agencies and as an advocate and lawyer for the City’s most overlooked communities. She is a former public defender, assistant Attorney General, and two-term New York City Council Member. She is running for New York Attorney General to fight for New Yorkers’ rights and to hold the powerful accountable, including Trump. In 2014, she became the first woman of color elected to citywide office. If elected Attorney General, she would become the first woman of color to hold statewide office in New York. A native of Brooklyn, she has a law degree from Howard University School of Law.