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EARLY YEARS

  • Raised by a social worker mom and a factory worker dad in rural Oxford.
  • Livingston’s parents were heavily involved in “Don’t Waste NY” in response to pollution resulting from widespread dumping of toxic materials by industrial polluters.
  • Surrounded by working people willing to advocate for the community.
  • Livingston’s mom helped establish teen peer sex education programs at Chenango County schools where Livingston served as a high school peer counselor. He and his brother sometimes got suspended for passing out condoms to the other students at school. He helped establish peer conflict resolution programs in middle and high schools throughout Chenango, Otsego, and Delaware Counties.
  • By the time he graduated high school he’d spent thousands of hours volunteering and earned the NYS Senate Scholarship for Community Service.

COLLEGE AND EARLY ADULTHOOD

  • Livingston got involved in anti-war efforts around the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in college. 
  • After three semesters at SUNY Binghamton, feeling discouraged about US involvement in these wars, he dropped out of college.
  • Livingston spent two years hitchhiking around the country with no place to call home. He crossed the country nine times, and crossed Canada once. 
  • He returned to Marlboro College in Vermont and started a Habitat for Humanity chapter there. 
  • He was also the chair of the college Community Service Committee where he organized relief trips to Mississippi and Louisiana in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 
  • Livingston worked for the Broome County Council of Churches CHOW program where he coordinated community meal programs throughout the Greater Binghamton Area. 
  • During his time at CHOW, he met his partner of 17 years, Becca. 
  • They spent the early days of their relationship coordinating weekly community meals at the Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier’s drop-in center and soon became involved with VINES helping to maintain and start other gardens including the Binghamton Urban Farm. 
  • Livingston traveled to NYC to help organize meals for Occupy Wall Street in 2008
  • At Standing Rock, Livingston helped transport military veterans to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest

ADVOCACY WORK

  • Livingston spent the first decade of his professional career working in the food and agriculture sectors. 
  • He served on two sessions of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Agriculture Working Group advocating for changes in the 2013 farm bill on behalf of EBT recipients.
  • Livingston served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention to represent Bernie Sanders. He was a Team Lead on a nationwide volunteer coordination team in the Bernie Sanders Campaign for President.
  • He made national news for nominating AOC to lead the New York Delegation.

ELECTORAL WORK

  • Livingston ran for and won Binghamton City Council’s open seat in 2018. As a Council Member he fought back against a privatization scheme at the area’s primary sewage treatment facility. He was able to keep good union jobs in our community.
  • During his reelection campaign, his father – for whom Livingston was the primary caregiver – began to lose his years-long battle with cancer. Dan lost his election that year.
  • Livingston later served as Executive Director of the Cannabis Association of New York ensuring small and midscale New York businesses had a say as regulations were established that would govern the industry
  • Later, Livingston worked with the State Democratic Party where he organized a paid canvassing program that flipped a city judge seat and 6-of-7 City council seats in Binghamton. It left the seventh seat in a statistical tie. 
  • He helped train and develop many community organizers across the Southern Tier.
  • In 2024 he worked for Citizen Action of New York where he organized a 6-month long deep canvassing operation in five cities across the state which resulted in two Congressional seats that flipped from Republican to Democratic control.
  • Livingston is currently helping to build a new advocacy organization to aid microbusinesses and small-scale cultivators in the New York Cannabis Industry.

ENDORSEMENTS

SPECIAL THANKS

Our campaign is people-powered and we are thankful for each-and-every person who supports the People for Livingston campaign. Dan Livingston would like to thank these people: those who opened up their homes, generously volunteered their time, donated, feed him and his staff and who even raised him. You guys rock! 

  • Andrea Livingston
  • Matt Livingston
  • Keith Darlin
  • Erica Stella
  • Carrie Blabac-Myers
  • Christina Zawerucha
  • Paul & Sons Pizza
  • Nate Hotchkiss