A Syracuse community activist, college librarian, daycare teacher and registered nurse are among seven Central New Yorkers selected by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders to represent him as delegates in his 2020 presidential campaign.

The Sanders campaign filed its full slate of delegates with the New York Board of Elections this week along with petitions for Sanders to appear on the ballot for the state’s Democratic presidential primary election on April 28.

The election will determine how many delegates each Democratic presidential candidate will receive out of the 278 up for grabs in New York’s election, the second highest of any state after California’s 415 delegates.

The delegates will be awarded to presidential candidates proportionately, based on the number of votes the candidate receives in each of New York’s 27 congressional districts. The delegates will represent the candidate at the Democratic National Convention in July.

The 24th Congressional District in Central New York will be represented by seven delegates. Here are the seven delegates on the Sanders slate:

Maurice Brown

Brown, 27, of Syracuse, is the only one of the seven delegates who served as a Sanders presidential delegate in 2016.

He is a founding member of Uplift Syracuse, a group of progressive Democratic activists. Until last year, he was a regional organizer for the Working Families Party in Central and Western New York. He also served as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve as a military police officer until last month.

Brown considered his own run for elected office last year. He decided last month that he wouldn’t challenge Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D-Syracuse, in this year’s Democratic primary election.

Kellie Brauchle

Brauchle, 36, of Syracuse, is a teacher and assistant director of a daycare center in Central New York.

She volunteered for the Sanders campaign in Central New York in 2016, helping with canvassing, data entry and voter registration drives.

Brauchle said she began volunteering for the Sanders 2020 campaign in September. She has helped staff a Sanders campaign booth at the Central New York Regional Market since October.

Karin Wikoff

Wikoff, 55, of Genoa in Cayuga County, is an electronic and technical services librarian at Ithaca College.

Wikoff founded the group Cayuga County for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election.

After the election, she helped establish Our Revolution Cayuga County. The group is a chapter of the New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) that was formed by former Sanders delegates.

Gary Weinstein

Weinstein, 65, of DeWitt, has been a clinical social worker in Syracuse for about 40 years.

He began working as a community organizer for the Syracuse Peace Council in 1977 and continued working at the organization through the early 1990s.

Weinstein served as a local volunteer for the Sanders campaign in 2016. He is one of the original members of the Democratic Socialists of America chapter in Syracuse that formed last year. The group has helped support candidates for local office.

Prerna Deer

Deer, 29, of Fayetteville, is a registered nurse and vice chair of the Manlius Democratic Committee. She is also an executive board member of Uplift Syracuse, the local group of progressive Democratic activists.

Deer chaired the successful campaign to flip the Manlius Town Board from Republican to Democratic control in November.

Deer’s husband, John Deer, was among four Democrats elected as Manlius Town Board members, giving Democrats a 5-to-1 majority.

Ian MacNeil

MacNeil, 34, of Solvay, works as a paralegal in Syracuse.

He made an unsuccessful bid in November for a position on the Solvay Board of Trustees.

After the 2016 election, MacNeil changed his voter registration from the Green Party to the Democratic Party.

Leeland Whitted

Whitted, of DeWitt, is a professor at SUNY Broome Community College. He focuses on economic and philosophical approaches to social conflict.

He has worked in television and radio journalism, and is the former host of the local public affairs talk show “Insight.”

Whitted is also a jazz pianist who has performed at concerts at workshops.

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