OUR TEAM
JESS MOSKOWITZ (THEY/THEM) - STATE DIRECTOR
Jess Moskowitz is an 19-year-old human rights and gun violence prevention activist from Westchester, NY. She was the Communications Organizer and Youth Outreach Director for the NYC March for Our Lives in 2018 and has worked as a Lower Hudson Valley Chapter Director since mid-2018. Jess takes pride in being a leader and is looking forward to working with amazing chapter leads across New York State and the the region as a whole. Jess attends be Ithaca College as a Park Scholar, where she studies journalism and focuses on community-based organizing. She has also worked with numerous GVP organizations and political campaigns advocating for real reform and an intersectional approach to activism. She is extremely humbled and excited to be a part of this team and can’t wait to see what March For Our Lives New York State will accomplish together.
NICK LIKOS (HE/HIM) - POLITICAL DIRECTOR
Nick Likos is a freshman at NYU and a self-proclaimed Zoom wizard. He joined MFOL as a high school sophomore, helping to organize rallies on Long Island. Soon after, he was onboarded to the executive board of MFOLNYS as the Political Director. Nick was initially inspired to join the GVP movement after winning an essay writing competition for a local elected official in which he highlighted the impact that gun violence has on educators since they are sometimeds forced to make difficult decisions that oftentimes put their lives in jeopardy. From that moment on, he has focused on finding ways to make schools a safer place for students. Ultimately, Nick wants to create a space where students like himself can walk into a classroom and focus on furthering their education rather than analyzing the room for the quickest route of escape.
MAX ROSENBLUM (HE/HIM) - COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Max Rosenblum is a freshman at the University of Chicago specializing in the humanities and social sciences. Max has lived in the Lower Hudson Valley his entire life, working on numerous grassroots political campaigns, issue-based organizing projects, and civic education programs. Forever passionate about social justice, Max was inspired to take action in service of the GVP movement after the Parkland shooting, and organized the vast majority of his high school student body in a walkout against gun violence in March 2018. Later that year, Max joined MFOL after hearing the stories of survivors from all across the nation at MFOL's Road to Change Tour stop in NYC. In the fall of 2018, he co-founded and co-directed the Lower Hudson Valley MFOL chapter, and a few months later joined the State Board as Communications Director. Since then, Max has managed social media, developed communications plans, designed MFOLNYS' website, and spearheaded digital campaigns.
JACK KELLY (HE/HIM) - ORGANIZING DIRECTOR
Jack Kelly is the Organizing Director with March for Our Lives New York and is thrilled to be a part of MFOL. Jack is a 16-year-old student at Harrison High School in New York who is deeply passionate about the gun violence prevention movement. He joined March for Our Lives after being an activist in his own community in regards to a gun store that posed threats to community safety. Outside of March for Our Lives, Jack is the National Director of Young Progressives with Biden for President — he uses political advocacy and campaigning to help elect those who champion gun violence prevention policies. As a member of March for Our Lives, Jack is honored to be part of the movement ‘saving lives’ and strives to support other activists across NY as they work in the gun violence prevention space.
OLIVIA LOMBARDO (SHE/HER) - ACTION DIRECTOR
Olivia Lombardo is a rising senior at Staten Island Academy in Staten Island, New York. She became involved with MFOL in the second half of her junior year. Her passion for gun violence prevention efforts began in the wake of the Parkland shooting, later growing into a desire to better understand spikes in gun violence within her own community. Olivia believes that we need to both elect gun sense candidates and hold them accountable; to that end, she has organized advocacy efforts at the State Capitol to ban ghost guns in New York State. Aside from GVP work, Olivia plays goalie for her school's soccer team, serves as Model UN club president, and sits on the Advisory Council for She’s The First, an international organization devoted to women's access to education.
BRIANNA TAYLOR (SHE/HER) - SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Brianna Taylor is an 18-year-old first-generation Barbadian-American from Long Island, New York and a freshman at George Washington University. Brianna is a passionate advocate for gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform, mental health, and women’s reproductive rights and safety. This is evidenced by her relentless work with MFOLNY as the Social Media Manager. Outside of MFOLNY, she serves as a youth representative and organizer for New York Assemblywoman Taylor Darling and as the Operations Lead at The Unplug Collective (@theunplugcollective), a black-owned magazine that features and prioritizes the experiences of black women. It is her mission as an activist to bring awareness to the systems of oppression that are plaguing our nation and to hold accountable those who choose to blind themselves to the many injustices in our country.
