Phara Souffrant Forrest
@phara4assembly.bsky.social
Nurse, activist, David’s mama, and NY State Assemblymember representing the 57th District. Chair of @TFNA_NYSA🌹
Today I stood with Starbucks workers in my district to say: enough is enough. They are fighting for living wages and fair schedules while Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccols makes $98 million a year. I’ll be supporting these workers until they get the contract they deserve.
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Today I stood with Starbucks workers in my district to say: enough is enough. They are fighting for living wages and fair schedules while Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccols makes $98 million a year. I’ll be supporting these workers until they get the contract they deserve.
Let's BRING IT HOME FOR ZOHRAN and make a New York City that actually WORKS FOR WORKING NEW YORKERS!
Get out there and VOTE!
Your auntie down the hall, your favorite bodega worker, that guy who works in your building that you've never spoken to but feel a strange kinship with: BRING THEM ALL!
LFG
Get out there and VOTE!
Your auntie down the hall, your favorite bodega worker, that guy who works in your building that you've never spoken to but feel a strange kinship with: BRING THEM ALL!
LFG
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Let's BRING IT HOME FOR ZOHRAN and make a New York City that actually WORKS FOR WORKING NEW YORKERS!
Get out there and VOTE!
Your auntie down the hall, your favorite bodega worker, that guy who works in your building that you've never spoken to but feel a strange kinship with: BRING THEM ALL!
LFG
Get out there and VOTE!
Your auntie down the hall, your favorite bodega worker, that guy who works in your building that you've never spoken to but feel a strange kinship with: BRING THEM ALL!
LFG
Wishing a joyful Diwali to all who celebrate! May this Festival of Lights bring you strength, healing, and the power to push back the darkness with joy and justice. ✨🪔
October 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wishing a joyful Diwali to all who celebrate! May this Festival of Lights bring you strength, healing, and the power to push back the darkness with joy and justice. ✨🪔
My statement:
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My statement:
Good morning Fort Greene! We have 6 weeks until the election - are you ready to elect @ZohranKMamdani our next mayor? Join me and tomorrow to make sure your neighbors are ready!
Sign up at socialists.nyc/zohran!
Sign up at socialists.nyc/zohran!
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Good morning Fort Greene! We have 6 weeks until the election - are you ready to elect @ZohranKMamdani our next mayor? Join me and tomorrow to make sure your neighbors are ready!
Sign up at socialists.nyc/zohran!
Sign up at socialists.nyc/zohran!
Team Phara is hiring! We are looking for a part-time community liaison to support the constituents of AD57, coordinate events, and represent our office in the community.
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/communityliaison57
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/communityliaison57
September 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Team Phara is hiring! We are looking for a part-time community liaison to support the constituents of AD57, coordinate events, and represent our office in the community.
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/communityliaison57
For more info and to apply, visit bit.ly/communityliaison57
Happening NOW: New Yorkers Against ICE.
We’re at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has been ruthlessly kidnapping immigrant NYers, to demand access to the 10th floor—where people are being inhumanely detained—and block ICE vans from leaving.
#ICEoutofNY
We’re at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has been ruthlessly kidnapping immigrant NYers, to demand access to the 10th floor—where people are being inhumanely detained—and block ICE vans from leaving.
#ICEoutofNY
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Happening NOW: New Yorkers Against ICE.
We’re at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has been ruthlessly kidnapping immigrant NYers, to demand access to the 10th floor—where people are being inhumanely detained—and block ICE vans from leaving.
#ICEoutofNY
We’re at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has been ruthlessly kidnapping immigrant NYers, to demand access to the 10th floor—where people are being inhumanely detained—and block ICE vans from leaving.
#ICEoutofNY
Imagine sitting in a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons having a meltdown because the next mayor is promising to make things affordable for working families. There’s something wrong with these people.
August 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Imagine sitting in a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons having a meltdown because the next mayor is promising to make things affordable for working families. There’s something wrong with these people.
🚨 Tickets are going fast for my State of the District Event! Don’t miss out! 🚨
📆 July 24th
⏰ 6 to 9PM
📍 BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place
👉🏾 bit.ly/pharasotd
📆 July 24th
⏰ 6 to 9PM
📍 BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place
👉🏾 bit.ly/pharasotd
July 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚨 Tickets are going fast for my State of the District Event! Don’t miss out! 🚨
📆 July 24th
⏰ 6 to 9PM
📍 BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place
👉🏾 bit.ly/pharasotd
📆 July 24th
⏰ 6 to 9PM
📍 BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place
👉🏾 bit.ly/pharasotd
True to form, Andrew Cuomo once again refuses to accept that ‘no’ really does means ‘no’.
July 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
True to form, Andrew Cuomo once again refuses to accept that ‘no’ really does means ‘no’.
Housing is a human right! But too many of us are still fighting just to stay in our homes.
Join me TOMORROW at 6PM for a Housing Justice Town Hall.
📍 647 Fulton St
🗓️ Tomorrow @ 6PM
🎟️ bit.ly/pharaHJ4A
Bring your neighbors! 🗣️🏠
Join me TOMORROW at 6PM for a Housing Justice Town Hall.
📍 647 Fulton St
🗓️ Tomorrow @ 6PM
🎟️ bit.ly/pharaHJ4A
Bring your neighbors! 🗣️🏠
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Housing is a human right! But too many of us are still fighting just to stay in our homes.
Join me TOMORROW at 6PM for a Housing Justice Town Hall.
📍 647 Fulton St
🗓️ Tomorrow @ 6PM
🎟️ bit.ly/pharaHJ4A
Bring your neighbors! 🗣️🏠
Join me TOMORROW at 6PM for a Housing Justice Town Hall.
📍 647 Fulton St
🗓️ Tomorrow @ 6PM
🎟️ bit.ly/pharaHJ4A
Bring your neighbors! 🗣️🏠
Weird threat to make since Hakeem already went after @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and I. How’d that go for him, again?
2022 Primary Results:
SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4%
AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2%
If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.
2022 Primary Results:
SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4%
AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2%
If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.
July 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Weird threat to make since Hakeem already went after @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and I. How’d that go for him, again?
2022 Primary Results:
SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4%
AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2%
If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.
2022 Primary Results:
SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4%
AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2%
If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.
My 4-day workweek bill is making moves! Imagine more time to live instead of just work. NY can lead the way for dignity, rest, joy, and prosperity!
Let's go! 🔥💪🏾
Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!
Let's go! 🔥💪🏾
Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!
July 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My 4-day workweek bill is making moves! Imagine more time to live instead of just work. NY can lead the way for dignity, rest, joy, and prosperity!
Let's go! 🔥💪🏾
Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!
Let's go! 🔥💪🏾
Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!
2/ call the legislature into special session so that we can take the action we should’ve taken before we went home.
If she won’t, the least she can do come here and explain to this boy’s mother why she won’t fight for families like theirs.
If she won’t, the least she can do come here and explain to this boy’s mother why she won’t fight for families like theirs.
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
2/ call the legislature into special session so that we can take the action we should’ve taken before we went home.
If she won’t, the least she can do come here and explain to this boy’s mother why she won’t fight for families like theirs.
If she won’t, the least she can do come here and explain to this boy’s mother why she won’t fight for families like theirs.
1/ At immigration court today, I watched the judge grant a young boy two years to finish his application. ICE agents grabbed him from his mother, put him in a freight elevator, and disappeared him.
I am calling on Gov Hochul to come here, see what is happening in her state, and
I am calling on Gov Hochul to come here, see what is happening in her state, and
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
1/ At immigration court today, I watched the judge grant a young boy two years to finish his application. ICE agents grabbed him from his mother, put him in a freight elevator, and disappeared him.
I am calling on Gov Hochul to come here, see what is happening in her state, and
I am calling on Gov Hochul to come here, see what is happening in her state, and
✨Come through, neighbors!✨
We’re hosting our second State of the District to share what we’ve been fighting for and hear directly from you. Your voice shapes our work. 💪🏾🗣️
We’re hosting our second State of the District to share what we’ve been fighting for and hear directly from you. Your voice shapes our work. 💪🏾🗣️
July 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
✨Come through, neighbors!✨
We’re hosting our second State of the District to share what we’ve been fighting for and hear directly from you. Your voice shapes our work. 💪🏾🗣️
We’re hosting our second State of the District to share what we’ve been fighting for and hear directly from you. Your voice shapes our work. 💪🏾🗣️
We must continue to fight the Trump administration's attacks on our rights, wherever we were born. My statement on today's SCOTUS ruling regarding executive orders:
June 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We must continue to fight the Trump administration's attacks on our rights, wherever we were born. My statement on today's SCOTUS ruling regarding executive orders:
This campaign was about making NYC a city where we all can live our best lives. Zohran embodies that dream like no one else and he fights like hell for it every day. If you don’t know, now you know.
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! I know you will be a true mayor of the people.
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! I know you will be a true mayor of the people.
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This campaign was about making NYC a city where we all can live our best lives. Zohran embodies that dream like no one else and he fights like hell for it every day. If you don’t know, now you know.
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! I know you will be a true mayor of the people.
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! I know you will be a true mayor of the people.
We need everyone to show up for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social so I made a quick video to explain why I’m standing with him and urging you all to rank Zohran first on your ballot!
Early voting ends Sunday! I want to see you at the polls!
Early voting ends Sunday! I want to see you at the polls!
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We need everyone to show up for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social so I made a quick video to explain why I’m standing with him and urging you all to rank Zohran first on your ballot!
Early voting ends Sunday! I want to see you at the polls!
Early voting ends Sunday! I want to see you at the polls!
Today we honor Juneteenth a celebration of Black freedom, resistance, and joy.
From Crown Heights to Galveston, we carry the legacy of those who refused to be broken and we keep building toward liberation.
Happy Juneteenth, fam. Let’s rest, rejoice, and recommit. 🖤✊🏾
From Crown Heights to Galveston, we carry the legacy of those who refused to be broken and we keep building toward liberation.
Happy Juneteenth, fam. Let’s rest, rejoice, and recommit. 🖤✊🏾
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today we honor Juneteenth a celebration of Black freedom, resistance, and joy.
From Crown Heights to Galveston, we carry the legacy of those who refused to be broken and we keep building toward liberation.
Happy Juneteenth, fam. Let’s rest, rejoice, and recommit. 🖤✊🏾
From Crown Heights to Galveston, we carry the legacy of those who refused to be broken and we keep building toward liberation.
Happy Juneteenth, fam. Let’s rest, rejoice, and recommit. 🖤✊🏾
ICE arresting @bradlander.bsky.social for standing in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers is outrageous and blatantly illegal.
Brad was doing what we all should be doing: showing up for our neighbors and fighting back against a violent, racist system.
RELEASE. HIM. NOW.
Brad was doing what we all should be doing: showing up for our neighbors and fighting back against a violent, racist system.
RELEASE. HIM. NOW.
June 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ICE arresting @bradlander.bsky.social for standing in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers is outrageous and blatantly illegal.
Brad was doing what we all should be doing: showing up for our neighbors and fighting back against a violent, racist system.
RELEASE. HIM. NOW.
Brad was doing what we all should be doing: showing up for our neighbors and fighting back against a violent, racist system.
RELEASE. HIM. NOW.
Power. Solidarity. Sisterhood.
Holding it down for working-class New Yorkers and serving looks on the Assembly floor. 🧵🔥✊🏾
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @sarahana.bsky.social @claireforqueens.bsky.social
Holding it down for working-class New Yorkers and serving looks on the Assembly floor. 🧵🔥✊🏾
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @sarahana.bsky.social @claireforqueens.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Power. Solidarity. Sisterhood.
Holding it down for working-class New Yorkers and serving looks on the Assembly floor. 🧵🔥✊🏾
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @sarahana.bsky.social @claireforqueens.bsky.social
Holding it down for working-class New Yorkers and serving looks on the Assembly floor. 🧵🔥✊🏾
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @sarahana.bsky.social @claireforqueens.bsky.social
We took the fight to the streets of Albany for the NY For All Act because our immigrant neighbors deserve safety, dignity, and the freedom to live without fear of ICE or police collaboration.
New York claims to be a sanctuary state. It's time our laws reflected that. ✊🏾💪🏾
New York claims to be a sanctuary state. It's time our laws reflected that. ✊🏾💪🏾
June 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We took the fight to the streets of Albany for the NY For All Act because our immigrant neighbors deserve safety, dignity, and the freedom to live without fear of ICE or police collaboration.
New York claims to be a sanctuary state. It's time our laws reflected that. ✊🏾💪🏾
New York claims to be a sanctuary state. It's time our laws reflected that. ✊🏾💪🏾
I’m blocking traffic on Washington Avenue outside the state Capitol with my colleagues and immigrant rights groups to say Pass New York for All now!
June 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m blocking traffic on Washington Avenue outside the state Capitol with my colleagues and immigrant rights groups to say Pass New York for All now!