Darializa Avila Chevalier: The Woman Without a Mandate

Two years before she won the Democratic nomination for New York's 13th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier stood at a chained door inside Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, singing as police moved in. Chalin traces the full escalation — from the first encampment to the overnight occupation to the arrests — and asks who actually paid the price for that night. Then: her record, her positions, and what a district that once sent Adam Clayton Powell and Charles Rangel to Washington deserves now.