Rapi Castillo
Template:TOCnestleft Rapi Castillo of Forest Hills, a tech worker and organizer who helped create the canvassing app Reach to help volunteers working on Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign last year.
Castillo is affiliated with the New York Progressive Action Network and Queens United Independent Progressives. He was an activist in the HQ2 fight and is now volunteering for public defender Tiffany Caban’s campaign for district attorney. [1]
Queens United Independent Progressives
Queens United Independent Progressives December 10 2020 ·
QUIP had the world’s most fun Zoom event tonight: a Holidarity (holiday + solidarity) party that brought together 106 members and friends.
The party began and ended with an awesome slideshow, conceived and executed by Co-Chair Rapi Castillo, of two and a half years of QUIP organizing.
Thomas Muccioli, Shawna Morlock and Vigie Ramos Rios took a page from A Christmas Carol, to explain QUIP past, present and future.
We offered salutes to and heard brief speeches from great organizers in Queens: Syonae Byeon of the MinKwon Center for Community Action talked about the Flushing Rezoning fight; Martha Ayon and Nick Haby talked about New Reformers electing 14 of 26 candidates for Democratic Party offices in its maiden election year. Marva Schomburg Kerwin and Kate Walls talked about Rockaway Revolution organizing a Black Lives Matter march in Belle Harbor. Rima Begum talked about organizing Bengali tenants in Jamaica.
Assembly member-elect Zohran Mamdani, Assembly member Ron Kim, State Senator Jessica Ramos, and Council members Brad Lander and Jimmy Van Bramer saluted us all, and talked about how profoundly Queens politics has changed—and how much work there was to do.
Then, Thomaa Muccioli won hands down in the vote for best silly picture.
Participants included Rofadden Lazare, Melanie D'Arrigo and Doug D'Arrigo, Tyler Herald, John Choe, Farudh Majid, David Ian Robin, Shaeleigh Severino. Nalisa Budhu, Carolyn Tran, Divya Sundaram, Czarrinna Andres, Nancy Silverman, Shekar Krishnan, Nancy de Silva, Felicia Singh, Kassandra Damblu, Julie Won, Andres Aguirre, Christopher Espinoza, Sophie Cohen, Albert Suh, Nick Berkowitz, Emily Sharpe.[2]
Founders and supporters
New Reformers founders and supporters, from left to right: Rapi Castillo, Soumaly King, Prameet Kumar, Vigie Ramos Rios, Peter Beadle, Richard Nunez-Lawrence, Bright Limm, Maria Kaufer, Heather Dimitriadis, Ingrid Gomez, Martha Ayon, and Moumita Ahmed.
Caban campaign
Rapi Castillo June 23 2019·
Ready to knock doors this beautiful Sunday morning with David Duhalde and 40+ friends! bit.ly/cabangotv
Queens DSA Unofficial Facebook Group
Members of Queens Democratic Socialists of America unofficial closed Facebook group, August 2017 included Rapi Castillo .[3]