About

Anami Dass is a harm reductionist, human rights advocate, and candidate running for City Council in District 9 of Albuquerque.  Anami has become a leading voice in the city government by challenging assumptions about homelessness and centering the needs of the people most impacted by homelessness. Her work is based on lived experience of homelessness, and desire to serve her community. 

Anami's work has led to the 2024 amendments to the Albuquerque Human Rights Ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or condition related to childbirth. She has also called on the administration to implement meaningful protections for immigrants and their families, as well as improvements to local social service funding and accountability measures, free speech protections, police demilitarization, restoring the city's Office of Civil Rights and Consumer Protections, and housing reform.

Anami is running because in the next 4 years, local governments are likely going to be determining how basic income is going to be distributed, how artificial intelligence  is going to be regulated, and how we are going to repair from the damage brought on by the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Albuquerque's council needs someone who will fight to ensure that everyone in Albuquerque can thrive.

Julie is a social worker and community advocate from Albuquerque who works with unhoused and runaway youth in Central New Mexico. They have worked on a number of campaigns locally, and have been a vocal advocate for change within the Democratic Party of New Mexico.