About Pierre

Local Government

Over the past two years, Pierre has served on Common Council, where he still serves. His focus has been on intermunicipal cooperation and coordination. He has also worked on improving governance, and governmental accountability, at the City level. He continues to advocate for lager-scale coordination, the possible merger of the Town and City of Ithaca, and the expansion of sewer access in Tompkins County.

City of Ithaca Common Council: Alderperson, 2024-Present

Chair, Working Group on City Commissions

Member, Tompkins County Council of Governments

Member, Ethics Advisory Board

Liaison Roles:

Liaison, Tompkins County Legislature

Liaison, Town of Ithaca Town Board

Liaison, Sustainability and Climate Justice Commission

Federal Politics

Pierre has done work in electoral politics, as well as in Washington D.C. political organizing.

He was Field Director for Max Della Pia’s 2022 Special Election Congressional Campaign, in the old 23rd District of New York, which contained most of the Southern Tier of New York State. In that R+16 District, the Della Pia Campaign only lost by 3% of the vote. He had previously been on Della Pia’s field team in the 2018 Democratic Primary for NY-23.

He was a Presidential Fellow on the 2020 Biden Campaign in Pennsylvania. In this role, he led a field team in Pittsburgh, coordinating events with other teams, and cohosting events with Pete Buttigieg, Josh Gad, and President Biden, among others.

He worked for Stand Up Republic, an anti-Trump Conservative organization devoted to protecting American democracy. In this role he worked directly with former Presidential candidate Evan McMullin, as well as numerous political groups and individuals concerned about the authoritarian backslide under the Trump administration. Stand Up Republic has since become one of the constituent parts of the Forward Party.

Max Della Pia for Congress

  • Field Director, 2022

  • Field Intern, 2018

Democratic National Committee

  • Presidential Fellow, 2020

Stand Up Republic

  • Intern, 2019

Cornell Law School

At Cornell Law School, Pierre specialized in Public Law, with in depth study of Constitutional Interpretation, Federal Administration, and Local Governance. He also took multiple classes on legal and governmental ethics. He did practical work representing indigenous groups in the Federal Indian Law Practicum.

As vice-president of the Native American Law Student Association, he helped organize Cornell NALSA’s annual Tribal Summit. As vice-president of the American Constitution Society, he help host numerous judges.

Cornell Law School, Class of 2024

  • Vice President, South Asian Law Students Association, 2022-2023

  • Vice President, Native American Law Students Association, 2022-2023

  • Vice President, American Constitution Society, 2022-2023

  • Graduate Community Liaison, Latino American Law Students Association, 2022-2023

Carnegie Mellon University

At Carnegie Mellon, Pierre studied both in the College of Engineering and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the College of Engineering, he majored in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. In the College of Humanities and Social Sciences he received a Bachelors of Science in Ethics, History, and Public Policy. He minored in Politics and Public Policy, and additionally minored in Societal and Human Impacts of Future Technologies.

He focused on policy and regulation for new and emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence.

During his time at CMU, he founded the University’s Democrats Club and completed capstone work on neighborhood decarbonization, racism in housing, and supply chain issues in electric vehicles.

Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2021

  • B.S. in Ethics, History, and Public Policy

    • Additional Major in Science, Technology, and Public Policy

    • Minor in Politics and Public Policy

    • Minor in Societal and Human Impacts of Future Technologies

  • Founder and President, CMU Democrats, 2019-2021

Lehman Alternative Community School

Pierre was heavily involved in governance at LACS. The school has a student-run direct democracy, which he orchestrated for four years.

His senior project was a full restructuring of the school’s student-run democracy, and a rewrite of the school Constitution, called the Decision Making Document (DMD).

While he was a student, he was involved in local governance, apprenticing to a member of the Common Council, serving on local government committees, and representing the students of the school district to the Board of Education.

Lehman Alternative Community School, Class of 2017

  • Student Chair of the Agenda Committee, 2013-2016 (Committee dissolved into Student Executive Committee)

  • Chair of the Student Executive Committee, 2016-2017

  • Student Representative to the Board of Education, 2016-2017

  • School President, 2016-2017

Heritage

Pierre’s parents are both immigrants, one from Venezuela and the other from India. He strives to, as an American, remain connected to his family history, and use his diverse background and perspective to advocate for fellow immigrants and children of immigrants.

Today, immigrant communities across America are under attack. Our fellow Americans are being stripped of legal status, abducted, deported, and wrongfully persecuted. The best protection is to stand in solidarity with friends, neighbors, and those who are unjustly under attack. Ours is a nation of immigrants.