Photo credit: Courtesy of Elisa CrespoElisa Crespo is fighting for a world where all people feel “included, safe, seen, and heard.” In 2021, she ran for NYC city council, where she would have been the first transgender woman of color to occupy a seat on the council. Now the Executive Director of the New Pride Agenda, Crespo fights to seek protections for incarcerated individuals and advocates for the decriminalization of sex work. In March 2023, she joined DSW and hundreds of allies in Albany to lobby in favor of the Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act, which would decriminalize consensual adult sex work in New York state.