Jason Wu, Attorney-in-Charge of The Legal Aid Society’s Harlem Community Law Office, has been named to the PoliticsNY and amNY Metro Asian American and Pacific Islander Power Players List.

The inaugural list honors New York’s most influential AAPI elected officials, executives, creators, business leaders, and activists from across industries and organizations.

In addition to his work with Legal Aid, Wu serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 11 in East Harlem and is currently a co-chair for GAPIMNY-Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders, a queer and trans AAPI organization that focuses on community building, political education, and mutual aid. They also write extensively on race, solidarity, and the relationship between law and social movements.

“Our policymakers have to engage in principled struggle to combat inequality and stop the political cowardice of selling out the most vulnerable, because ultimately none of us are free until all of us are,” Wu tells the publication. “Until we address the root causes of violence in our society, we are doomed to repeat these cycles of violence. We must redistribute resources away from systems, like prisons and war, that kill and destroy and towards those that affirm life.”

Congratulations to Jason; read the full list here.