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Latino Vote '21 Podcast: Alexa Avilés Pursues a City Council Seat in Brooklyn


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Alexa Avilés (photo: Alexa Avilés campaign)


Alexa Avilés, a Democratic candidate for City Council, recently prevailed in the primary in District 38 in Brooklyn. She joined the Latino Vote '21 podcast to discuss her candidacy and the Latino vote in her district and beyond. The Latino Vote '21 podcast is a pop-up podcast produced by Gotham Gazette and hosted by contributing columnist Eli Valentin (who writes a column of the same name) exploring Latino candidates, voters, and other related themes in the city's 2021 elections. Episodes can be found under "Max Politics" wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the episode with Alexa Avilés there or through the embedded audio below:

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Eli Valentin is a political analyst and author of the forthcoming book, Reinhold Niebuhr: A Political Life. On Twitter @EliValentinNY.

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