Meet Brendan McGrath
The Next Generation of Leadership - Delivering Results for Our Community
While Brendan grew up in a small town on the south shore of Boston, he has spent almost his entire adult life as a resident of New York. Brendan attended St. Lawrence University and moved to the East Village after earning his Bachelor of Science in Economics & Psychology.
He moved to the East Village in 2011 and while his career allowed Brendan to move around and live in several major US cities, he returned to NYC in 2015, where he lived in Murray Hill and continued his career in Marketing.
Brendan began getting involved in politics in early 2016, when he registered as a Democrat in NY and volunteered for the Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign. Since then, Brendan has spent time volunteering for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 2018 Congressional campaign, and the 2020 Ossoff and Warnock runoff Senate campaigns in Georgia.
Brendan began getting move involved with activism in NYC after the 2016 election. In 2017, Brendan helped his friend, Adam Eli Werner, found Voices4, a non-violent, direct action, queer activist group that seeks to bring attention to global LGBTQIA+ issues. He has also been involved in Out in Tech and Gays Against Guns in New York since the same time.
Brendan returned to upstate New York in 2018 to pursue an MBA and Masters of Labor Relations at Cornell University and moved back to New York after graduating in 2021. Brendan was very involved at Cornell, serving both in Student Government and as the President of the Politics Club on campus. Upon returning to the city, Brendan and his now 3-year-old husky-lab mix, Echo, lived in Chelsea, near his employer, Citi Bank, in TriBeCa. Brendan works as a Human Capital Advisor at Citi. He and Echo now reside in the West Village, in the Meatpacking District, part of NY District 66.
McGrath for Manhattan is a political campaign website for people to learn more about Brendan McGrath as candidate for NY State Assembly District 66. Our campaign aims to inform voters about the key issues and plans to address them. The key issues that our campaign will focus on include the Climate Crisis/Environmental issues, Economy/Jobs, and Affordable Housing. The campaign is based in New York City. Brendan plans to help bring a new generation of leadership and voices to New York State politics. Brendan is committed to understanding the issues of the district, supporting progressive democratic issues, and winning in the general election in November 2024.
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