Jeremiah Frei-Pearson lives in Astoria with his wife, Karla Mosley Frei-Pearson, and their two cats: Scooby and Scrappy. Jeremiah has lived in Astoria since graduating from law school–drawn to a community he loved from childhood visits with his father, who has lived in Queens for more than a decade. Jeremiah's commitment to serving Western Queens grows from his roots and his experiences as an active participant in the life and politics of our community.

Jeremiah has the courage and integrity to be a true leader in a time when our government in New York is known more for scandal and corruption. He has a strong public record of fighting for those in need. He works as an attorney for Children's Rights, where he helps get children out of broken foster systems into caring, safe, and healthy homes. He's well known in Astoria as part of the legal team who won a $63 million dollar settlement from ConEd to compensate the victims of the 2006 Queens Blackout and fund neighborhood Greening projects to improve the quality of life in our communities. Jeremiah rallied with the gay and lesbian community to fight for marriage rights and helped found Western Queens for Marriage Equality. He works with the Long Island City Alliance to keep poorly-planned development from disfiguring our neighborhoods.

As a lawyer, Jeremiah has spent his career fighting to give voice to foster children and others who have been shut out and shoved aside by our political system. He uses the courts to fix broken government foster care agencies and to give opportunities to disadvantaged children. Jeremiah knows how to make government work. He strongly believes that New York state government must work because our children need better schools, we all need quality healthcare, and we need a government that can tackle the serious economic problems we are facing.

Jeremiah is active in numerous civic groups in our community, including Western Queens Power for the People, Western Queens for Marriage Equality, 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. Jeremiah has received the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award from the New York City Bar Association for his pro bono death penalty work. He has also received the Kaye Scholer Pro Bono Achievement Award for his work on a death penalty case and several social security cases. He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Civil Rights Committee, an executive committee member of the American Constitution Society’s New York Lawyer Chapter, and a volunteer member of the Election Protection Coalition.

As a law student, Jeremiah was a Public Interest Fellow and Senior Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. He organized and supervised a program providing direct legal services to poor people, taught children in prison, worked in a legal clinic for the mentally ill, and co-founded the Stanford Chapter of the American Constitution Society. In 2001, Mr. Frei-Pearson interned for the Honorable Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York. As a college student, he interned for Senator Ted Kennedy and for several organizations that provide services to children.