Kush started organizing in high school when he worked with fellow students to kneel with Colin Kaepernick during football games to protest against police brutality. Since then, Kush has focused organizing their community on passing stronger renter protections in the DMV area, climate reforms, and legislation granting voting rights to all DC residents, regardless of immigration status. Kush has organized with some incredible people to make this possible and is grateful to support Fair Budget’s mission to give DC the future it deserves. 

Over the last few years, Kush has been part of some incredible fights in DC as a community organizer, ranging from rent stabilization to decriminalize street vending to enfranchising over 85,000 non-citizens across the city who previously did not have the right to vote. As someone young who centers relationships and collective liberation in their work, Kush carries the perspective of someone who is actively doing the work while building long-term strategy to make sure we are not only preventing the fires of today, but making sure we accomplish our dreams for tomorrow. His organizing experience, as well as building organizations, being a president of a board, and working within the philanthropic landscape, gives him the skills needed to help continue moving Fair Budget to organize a future for DC with true racial and economic justice.