Eon Tyrell Huntley

According to his Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey and campaign website, Eon Tyrell Huntley grew up in East New York and in NYCHA's Pink Houses; his father immigrated from Guyana and his mother is a second-generation Brooklynite.[1][2] He says he attended New York City public schools, and Ballotpedia lists a high school diploma from the High School of Art and Design and a bachelor's degree from the Parsons School of Design in 2006.[1] Huntley describes working as a fashion designer and, currently, a retail clothing salesman, and Ballotpedia lists his profession as retail.[1][2] He says that as a member of the bargaining committee for Workers United Local 340, he fought for and won healthcare coverage for fellow workers.[1][2]

Huntley says he served three terms as PTA president at his daughters' school and co-founded a mobile food pantry that fed hundreds of Brooklyn residents each month during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2] In his survey he says he has lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant for 19 years with his wife Rebecca, a public school teacher.[1]

Huntley ran in the June 25, 2024 Democratic primary for Assembly District 56 and lost to incumbent Stefani Zinerman, who received 52.8% of the vote to his 46.9%.[1] On June 23, 2026 he defeated Zinerman and a third candidate, Michael Bailey, in the Democratic primary with 58.3% of the vote, and he also advanced on the Working Families Party line after that party's primary was canceled.[1] His campaign website listed universal childcare, a rent freeze and expanded rent controls among his priorities.[1][2] He was unopposed in the November 3, 2026 general election, according to Wikipedia.[3]