Jeremiah Frei-Pearson

Jeremiah Frei-Pearson is a child advocate and civil rights attorney living in Astoria, Queens, New York.
In April 2010, Frei-Pearson announced he was running for State Assembly. http://jeremiahfp.org/press.html
http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2010/04/26/news/regional/northwest_west/doc4bd5a6336777f872781775.txt
In 2009 and 2010, activists encouraged him to run for state Senate in the Democratic primary against incumbent George Onorato.

Frei-Pearson is very active in Western Queens. As a pro bono lawyer for Western Queens Power for the People, he helped get a $63 million dollar settlement from ConEdison for the people of Queens after the 2006 blackout. [http://www3.dps.state.ny.us/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/C0CAEF47EA0A107C852574880067659B/$File/pr08080.pdf?OpenElement]
Frei-Pearson received no share of this judgment, which was used to give $100 rebates to people who lost power and to fund greening projects in Queens.
As a leader of Western Queens for Marriage Equality, he organized the largest rally in Athens Park history, where 2,500 people rallied for equality. .
He is also involved in Astorians United Against Hate Crimes, the Long Island City Alliance, the Coalition for a Better Astoria, Democracy for New York City, and the New York Lawyers' Democratic Counsel.

Frei-Pearson attended Skidmore University as an undergraduate.
In college, he interned for the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
Jeremiah later attended Stanford Law School in California.
He flew to New York from California after the events of September 11th to assist with clean up efforts at Ground Zero. The Red Cross officially recognized him for his work.
At Stanford Law School, Frei-Pearson ran a center providing legal aid to poor people. He also co-founded the Stanford chapter of the American Constitution Society and the Stanford Law School Democrats. He also served on the Stanford Law & Policy Review.
Frei-Pearson graduated from law school in 2003. He then moved to Astoria, New York, and has lived there ever since.
Currently Frei-Pearson works as a public interest lawyer for , representing foster children in class action cases to reform broken foster care systems. http://www.childrensrights.org/about/staff-and-board-of-directors/staff/jeremiah-frei-pearson/.
Prior to his work with Children's Rights, he worked as an associate at the big law firm Kaye Scholer, where, in addition to his regular litigation practice, he took on many pro bono cases.
Frei-Pearson is active in numerous civic groups. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2008 New York State Thurgood Marshall Representation Award and a 2009 award from the New York City Council honoring his work with children.
Frei-Pearson married actress Karla Mosley in 2009.

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