Candidate briefing
Darializa Avila Chevalier is the 2026 Democratic nominee for New York’s 13th Congressional District, covering Upper Manhattan and part of the Bronx. A Columbia graduate and CUNY doctoral student, she organized with Families for Freedom and worked as an investigator at a Harlem public defender’s office.
On June 23 she defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat, 49.5% to 45.7%. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
She faces Republican Manual Williams on November 3. DSA, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, the Working Families Party, Indivisible and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee have endorsed her. Why Political Revolution supports her: she beat an entrenched incumbent with a door-to-door campaign rooted in immigrant and tenant organizing.