City Council Member Addresses Upper School

On Friday, January 27 Friends welcomed Chi Ossé ‘16 to speak to Upper and Lower School students in a series of events. Chi is the Council Member for New York City’s 36th District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights. He entered politics as an organizer and prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement. At 23 years old, Ossé was elected in 2021 as the youngest member of this Council and its only member hailing from Gen-Z.

Josh Goren, Upper School English Teacher, highlighted some of the Council Member’s biggest achievements in his first year in office. Chi has been taking on the rat population, protecting renters’ rights and helping longtime homeowners against gentrification, ensuring every bar in the city has Narcan (a drug overdose medication on hand), and using participatory budgeting to distribute city money to local people doing local work. Josh also shared his top five favorite memories of him during his upper school years (all involving Chi being very vocal!)

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Pictured above: Chi Ossé ‘16 speaks to Grade 4 students.