{"id":904,"date":"2021-05-25T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/keisha-alleyne-brings-wide-experience-to-kings-county-civil-court-judge-race-representing-east-new-york-and-brownsville\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:25:01","slug":"keisha-alleyne-brings-wide-experience-to-kings-county-civil-court-judge-race-representing-east-new-york-and-brownsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Keisha Alleyne Brings Wide Experience to Kings County Civil Court Judge Race Representing East New York and Brownsville"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is republished courtesy of PoliticsNY<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Kings County Civil Court Judge race for Brooklyn\u2019s 7th Municipal District, representing Brownsville and East New York,\u00a0 is well underway and Attorney Keisha Alleyne<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is running for the bench seat.<\/p>\n

Alleyne has a coalition of supporters and various electeds\u00a0endorsing<\/a>\u00a0her campaign so far, including\u00a0U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, Assemblymember Laurie A. Cumbo, former Assemblymember Michael Blake, Assemblymember Latrice M. Walker, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel, and former District Leader Nikki Lucas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alleyne is also an active member of the National Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the National Women\u2019s Political Caucus, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The screening panel had already interviewed potential judges by the time the campaign had kicked off, said Alleyne.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy platform is justice and understanding, integrity, compassion, right, along with being experienced,\u201d said Alleyne. \u201cOur judicial system has to truly start to reflect the views of our communities that we live in. In order to do that you have to be a servant of the community, you have to have been here mentoring and actually living here, serving the families.That makes for a better judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Brownsville, Alleyne said that her faith was a large part of her upbringing in the church and fostered a dedication to community service for many years. She credits her parents, originally from Charleston, South Carolina, for instilling her with an appreciation for education and religion. \u201cThey grew up during the times of segregation down in the South and came up to New York City,\u201d said Alleyne.<\/p>\n

Alleyne said she has one judge in her family, Judge Veronica Morgan Price, who she is proud to model herself after. Apart from herself, there are also a few lawyers in her family as well, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrownsville has a lot of greatness in it,\u201d said Alleyne. \u201cI think that sometimes it\u2019s underrated. People tend to believe that because it\u2019s not glorified as one of the best communities in New York City that it doesn\u2019t have greatness or great people in it. I am a proud example of what Brownsville puts out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially, she earned a degree in accounting before going on to get a juris doctorate law degree focusing on volunteer work with nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I graduated from Bryant University, I started working in accounting for two years, and it\u2019s there that I saw the inequitable treatment of people of color as it related to compensation,\u201d said Alleyne about why she made the switch. \u201cSince then I\u2019ve been working for the last 18 years as a corporate litigation attorney both civil and supreme court.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that she\u2019s working to improve the socio-economic status of her fellow community members by taking on contract disputes and tax issues, as well as personal injury claims in court.<\/p>\n

Part of Alleyne\u2019s career has heavily focused on education as well. She said she saw up close the deficiencies in the education system and how it impacted Black and Brown communities without as many opportunities for its students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really my passion, I have been mentoring youth for probably about 17 years and I found that that is one of the things I\u2019m passionate about,\u201d said Alleyne.<\/p>\n

Alleyne founded Elite Vision Enterprise LLC in 2015 as part of her youth mentorship program, which provides leadership development programs borough-wide to students and minority-owned businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt provides programming to students. We do, with a heavy influence on public speaking and advocacy skills, mock trials, oratorical competitions, in order to help bridge some of the educational gaps,\u201d said Alleyne.<\/p>\n

She also co-founded Collegiate M.I.N.D.S. Inc., a non-profit organization focused on highlighting STEM careers and assisting middle-income network development for scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is republished courtesy of PoliticsNY The Kings County Civil Court Judge race for Brooklyn\u2019s 7th Municipal District, representing Brownsville and East New York,\u00a0 is well underway and Attorney Keisha Alleyne\u00a0is running for the bench seat. Alleyne has a coalition of supporters and various electeds\u00a0endorsing\u00a0her campaign so far, including\u00a0U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, Assemblymember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-features","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}