Yale Daily News - Aldermanic president points to struggles of disadvantaged residents

4/21/25, 4:00 PM

President Tyisha Walker-Myers promoted UNITE HERE union priorities in an annual speech from the Board of Alders’ Black and Hispanic Caucus.

Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers drew attention to the hardships of working-class and racially marginalized New Haveners in a speech on Monday evening, carrying the perennial priorities of Yale unions into the second Trump era.

Walker-Myers, who represents West River’s Ward 23 and has served as the board’s president since 2015, delivered the annual State of the City address for the board’s Black and Hispanic Caucus.

“The suffering in the Black and brown communities has been going on so long, some residents have lost hope and even given up on the American dream,” Walker-Myers said, citing the quarter of New Haven residents who she said live in poverty. “Our city must deliver on the promise of the American dream, even while national leaders work tirelessly to undermine that.”