Governor Mario M. Cuomo was the longest serving democratic governor in the modern history of New York State. He was elected New York State's 52nd Governor in 1982 and twice won re-election, setting records for popularity in both contests. Beginning with his widely admired keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and his celebrated speech on the relationship of religion and politics at Notre Dame, he has helped define the progressive political landscape for two decades.
In twelve years at the helm of the nation's most populous state, Governor Cuomo steered the State through two recessions, balanced twelve consecutive budgets, created more than half a million jobs, and led the state through two national recessions. He launched the largest economic development initiative in New York history, spurring private sector growth through billions of dollars of public investment in infrastructure enhancements and the creation of an unparalleled network of high-tech research facilities. During Cuomo's tenure, foreign investment in New York almost doubled and thousands of new export opportunities were created for New York firms. He furthered the national debate on economic policy and trends through the findings of the Cuomo Commission on Trade and Competitiveness – The Cuomo Commission Report (1988) and America's Agenda: Rebuilding Economic Strength (1992).
During the decade that rocked the nation with the exploding crises of crack cocaine, homelessness and AIDS, Governor Cuomo also enhanced New York's reputation as a leader in socially progressive legislation. He created the country's most extensive drug treatment network, its largest program of housing assistance for the homeless, a nationally recognized plan for AIDS prevention and treatment, and tough but constructive new approaches to criminal justice, particularly in the area of drug-related crime. Cuomo also launched Child Health-Plus and the Children’s Assistance Program, America's first real alternatives to welfare reform later used as models for Federal welfare programs. He also initiated a revolutionary ten-year commitment to New York's children called "The Decade of the Child."
Having designated a total of 112 judges, Governor Cuomo also set a new standard for both diversity and judicial achievement on the state's highest court, appointing all seven members of New York's highly regarded Court of Appeals, including the first and second women judges, the first black, the first Hispanic and the first woman to serve as Chief Judge.
Governor Cuomo practiced law until 1975, when he was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey as New York's Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, he helped write the first public disclosure laws in New York State and drafted the first reform of New York’s lobbying laws in over seventy years. In 1978, he was elected as Lieutenant Governor, a position he held until going on to win the governorship himself in 1982.
Since leaving public office, Governor Cuomo has returned to the practice of law, as a Partner in the New York office of the international firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He is also a member of the Board of Editors of the New York Law Journal and an accomplished author as well. His latest book, published in 2004, is titled Why Lincoln Matters, Today More Than Ever.
Married since 1954, Governor Cuomo and his wife, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, are the parents of five children: Dr. Margaret I. Cuomo, married to Howard Maier; Andrew Cuomo, Maria Cuomo, married to Kenneth Cole; Madeline Cuomo, married to Brian O'Donoghue; and Christopher Cuomo, married to Cristina Greeven. The Cuomos have twelve granddaughters and one grandson.
Hon. Adolfo Carri—n, Jr., the Bronx’s 12th chief executive since municipal incorporation in 1898, was born in Lower Manhattan and moved with his family to the Baychester section of the Northeast Bronx when he was in fourth grade. The son of a Protestant minister and a mother who gave him a daily dose of the golden rule, Carri—n graduated from Kings College, a Christian liberal arts college then located in Westchester County. He served as an associate pastor at a Bronx church and later as a public school teacher in the west Bronx.
After earning a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, Carri—n worked for three years in the Bronx office of the New York City Department of City Planning. Carri—n then became the district manager for Community Board 5 in the Bronx, overseeing the delivery of services to over 150,000 residents. He later became Vice President of Human Services and Community Outreach for Promesa, a community development organization.
In 1997, Carri—n ran for and won a seat in the City Council representing the Bronx’s 14th District including the West Bronx neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Kingsbridge and Fordham. As a member of the City Council, Carri—n sat on the Economic Development, Education, Higher Education, Environmental Protection, Governmental Operations and Land Use committees. He also served as chairman of a special Subcommittee on the 2000 Census.
Carri—n committed his administration to the leadership principles he stressed in his campaign – a promise to work for improved schools and housing, more jobs at a living wage and safer streets for Bronx families. The Bronx is leading the way in providing housing opportunities for people of all incomes in the borough. Since Carri—n took office in 2001, over 2.2 billion dollars has been invested in residential real estate – resulting in 25,000 new units being built. He has directed 40% of his 2007 capital funding to housing development. Carrion created The Bronx at Work Housing Series to address critical housing needs in the borough for both consumers and developers. He has hosted an Annual Free Homebuyers Fair, a symposium on Market Approaches to Affordable Housing and created the Bronx Homebuyer Education Initiative Program. In 2005, 1,222 new addresses were issued in the borough, a 97% increase since 2002.
The Bronx has seen a pace of development never before experienced in the history of the county. Carri—n has ensured that this development does not occur in a vacuum and has always insisted that the community must be involved. By working with developers Carri—n has created a set of standards for economic development in the Bronx. Residents, Bronx businesses, community groups and neighborhoods have benefited from the economic development taking place throughout the borough. Jobs, new and improved parkland, better infrastructure, contract opportunities for Bronx businesses and benefits for community organizations are all a part of his building a stronger Bronx policy. Total investment in the borough has increased from $400 million in 2001 to almost $1 billion invested in 2005, a 236% increase. Since Carri—n took office in 2001, over $3 billion has been invested throughout the borough. Commercial land use and investment has increased by 116 %, the Bronx has created 71% of private sector jobs for the city, property values have increased by 40%, and the unemployment rate has dropped nearly 6%.
Carri—n, 46, is married to Linda Baldwin, an attorney. He has three daughters – Raquel, Sara and Olivia – and a son Adolfo James, known as AJ. He lives with his family on City Island in the Bronx.
Adam V. Friedman is Executive Director of the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN), a citywide economic development organization established in 1997. NYIRN promotes a diverse economy that includes a strong manufacturing sector to provide economic opportunities to all New Yorkers consistent with principles of economic and environmental justice and sustainability. NYIRN provides services to approximately 400 companies each year and conducts research and advocacy to increase awareness of the continuing importance of blue-collar jobs and to create a positive business environment. Prior to NYIRN, Mr. Friedman was Director of Economic Development for Manhattan Borough Presidents Dinkins and Messinger and President of the Garment Industry Development Corp.
Mr. Friedman has authored or directed numerous studies and initiatives that have helped shape City policy. Major achievements include:
ß Building Green (2005) and Manufacturing Green (2006) examined how increased construction of environmentally-friendly, energy efficient buildings is creating demand for new green products that can be manufactured locally and the capacity of New York manufacturers to compete in these emerging markets;
ß Food From New York (2000) and Baked In New York (2001) documented the economic impact and needs of food manufacturers. Mr. Friedman subsequently directed the launch of Food From New York, a sectoral initiative to capitalize on the opportunities identified in the studies;
ß The Garment Center – Still In Fashion NYIRN (2000), a land-use study which documented the continued importance of the apparel industry on Manhattan’s Garment Center based on a door-to-door survey;
Mr. Friedman is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a member of the Boards of the Community Services Society and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Advisory Board of the Planning Center of the Municipal Art Society. Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Haverford College and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
Linda I. Gibbs is the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. As Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Gibbs oversees the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Human Resources Administration, Administration for Children's Services, Department of Homeless Services, Department for the Aging, Health and Hospitals Corporation, Department of Correction, Department of Probation, Department of Juvenile Justice, Office of Health Insurance Access, and the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Mayor, Gibbs was the Commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services. During the Giuliani Administration, Gibbs served as the Deputy Commissioner for Management and Planning for the Administration for Children's Services. Since her graduation from SUNY Buffalo School of Law in 1985, Gibbs has served in various positions in New York City's government. She has also served in the New York City Council as Special Advisor to the Director of the Finance Division and at the Mayor's Office of Management and Budget as Deputy Director for Social Services.
Sara Horowitz is the Executive Director and Founder of the Freelancers Union. Sara has run Working Today - Freelancers Union since she founded the organization in 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. She pioneered the Portable Benefits Network that has allowed thousands of freelancers to maintain insurance coverage as they move from job to job. She has been widely recognized for her entrepreneurial efforts to create a new labor institution for independent workers. In 1999, Sara was honored with a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" Fellowship. She is currently on the Board of Directors and serves as Treasurer for the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and she is on the Board and serves as Treasurer for Demos. Before founding Working Today, Sara was a union organizer with 1199, the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. She has a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a law degree cum laude from the SUNY Buffalo Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Council Member John Liu is the Chairperson of the Council's Transportation Committee. He also serves on the committees on Education, Consumer Affairs, Contracts, Oversight & Investigations and Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. As Chairperson of the Council's Committee on Transportation, Liu focuses public policy on the critical role transportation options play in economic development and access to jobs. He demands, and has secured, more accountability from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He has enacted legislation improving safety for pedestrians and has initiated public works projects to improve vehicular traffic flow and ease congestion. He has also developed programs bringing yellow taxicabs to areas outside Manhattan. He also vigorously conducts legislative oversight over the Department of Transportation and the Taxi and Limousine Commission. As a member of the Council's Committee on Education, he insists on raising standards in our public schools, increasing reliance and trust in teachers to teach our kids and investing city resources in our future generations. He has also provided millions of dollars to fund high-tech upgrades to local schools.
Shocking as it may be, in 2002 Liu was the first and is currently the only Asian Pacific American to be elected in New York City. Though he wishes Asian Pacific Americans had been elected long ago, he is honored to be the first. As the first, he embraces opportunities to broaden representation and access to government for APAs and for all groups who have lacked a strong voice in government. Liu attended local public schools and then went on to graduate from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University, where he earned a degree in Mathematical Physics. Prior to serving in the City Council, he worked as a manager at the global consulting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
John Mollenkopf is professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center where he directs the Center for Urban Research. He has authored or edited six books on urban politics, urban policy, and New York City, including A Phoenix In The Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (Princeton 1994). He also coordinates the Graduate Center's interdisciplinary program on public policy and urban studies. In June 1998, he was Wibaut Chair Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Amsterdam Center for the Metropolitan Environment of the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in 1981, he directed the Economic Development Division of the New York City Department of City Planning and taught urban studies and public management at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Harvard and BA from Carleton College.
His current research, with Philip Kasinitz and Mary Waters, focuses on the immigrant second generation and native minority young adults in the New York metropolitan area. Other current projects include analyzing the spatial patterns of crime in New York City, comparing economic restructuring and social stratification in New York, Tokyo, London, and Paris, and a book on "Rethinking the Urban Agenda" with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom. He is also co-editing a book on historical and contemporary perspectives on the political incorporation of immigrants with Gary Gerstle sponsored by the Social Science Research Council Committee on International Migration.
Mollenkopf was Program Director for Urban Initiatives at the Social Science Research Council from 1991 to 1993 and chaired SSRC's Research Committee on New York City from 1989 to 1991. He has served on the Urban Affairs Review editorial board, the executive committee of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the executive committee of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the New School University. He consulted with the New York City Districting Commission in 1991, the Charter Revision Commissions of 1988-89, and is an expert witness on racial bloc voting patterns in federal voting rights cases.
Jerilyn Perine was named Executive Director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York in October 2006. Ms. Perine is an urban planner with nearly 30 years of experience in housing and community development in New York City’s neighborhoods.
Ms. Perine was appointed by both Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lead America’s largest municipal housing agency with more than 3000 employees and an annual operating and capital budget of $800 million. She served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development from September 2000 until March 2004. As Commissioner, Ms. Perine was the author of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, announced in December 2002 that provides $3 billion over 5 years to preserve and create over 65,000 units of affordable housing. Under Mayor Giuliani she designed and oversaw the management and operation of programs designed to return a significant inventory of tax foreclosed residential property to local, private ownership.
Ms. Perine formed her own consulting practice, Block by Block, LLC which focused on affordable housing development and community development in cities in the US and abroad. She has collaborated with practitioners in the former East Germany, Germany, Spain, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. She was a member of the International Brownfield Exchange between 1998 and 2002. Ms. Perine grew up in New York City where she received a Bachelors Degree from City College of New York and completed graduate work in Urban Planning at New York University.
Martha E. Stark, the first African-American woman to serve as New York City's Finance Commissioner, leads a 2300-person agency charged with collecting $20 billion dollars in annual tax revenue, maintaining records for more than one 1 million properties, conducting thousands of tax audits and adjudicating more than two million parking tickets each year. Commissioner Stark also serves as chair of the New York City Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System.
Since her appointment on February 11, 2002, Commissioner Stark has improved the agency's operations in numerous ways, all in an effort to make Finance more efficient, more effective and more customer-friendly. Her achievements include reforming the property valuation process, simplifying the property tax billing process, administering a successful business tax amnesty program, administering the $400 property tax rebate and launching a program to expand banking services in underserved neighborhoods.
Commissioner Stark's successful tenure to date builds on work she began at Finance from 1990-1993, when she held several senior management positions during the Dinkins Administration. As the Acting Director of the Conciliations Bureau, she established the unit that mediates business tax disputes. As an Assistant Commissioner, Stark managed the team responsible for answering taxpayer questions, and led the Department's effort to educate the public and elected officials about the city's complex tax issues. She also was responsible for a comprehensive analysis of the city's real property tax structure.
Following this stint at Finance, Stark was a White House Fellow in 1993, assigned to the U.S. Department of State. Stark then served as Director and Deputy Counsel for Policy and Development in the Manhattan Borough President's Office, where she formulated policy recommendations in civil rights, health, education, welfare and other areas, oversaw budget and land use issues and sat on the New York City Employee Retirement System Investment Committee.
During this time Stark also consulted on "The Orphaned Capitol," an influential Brookings Institution study which recommended ways to restore the District of Columbia's fiscal health. In 1998, Stark co-authored a study for the New York University School of Law that analyzed the high cost of building and renovating housing in New York City.
Stark has written extensively about the New York City property tax, and has taught budget and finance courses at Hunter College and business law at Baruch College. She earned her bachelor's and law degrees from New York University, where she captained the varsity basketball team. She lives in Brooklyn, where she grew up and attended public high school.
Hon. William C. Thompson, Jr. became New York City’s 42nd Comptroller on January 1, 2002. He was re-elected and began his second term on January 1, 2006. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, Thompson is the son of a judge and a public school teacher. He is the proud product of the New York City public school system.
As custodian and investment advisor to all five of the City’s pension funds, Thompson manages a combined portfolio of more than $105 billion. In this role, Thompson has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in affordable housing and commercial real estate in New York City, helping increase housing and job opportunities within the five boroughs. He has demonstrated a serious commitment to fostering opportunities for women- and minority-owned firms to conduct business with New York City. Under his leadership, the amount of New York City Pension Fund assets managed by women- and minority-owned firms has more than tripled to approximately $3.7 billion.
Thompson has earned a reputation as a tough advocate for New Yorkers. He has stood on the side of working people seeking a living wage and fairness on the job. He led the fight to protect the City’s Meals-On-Wheels program, an invaluable lifeline for many frail elderly. Thompson’s battle against the proposed bus and subway fare hikes forced the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to open its books to the public. He alerted New Yorkers that the Federal government was failing to make good on its promise of aid in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Thompson challenged the City’s inequitable plan to reduce trash collection in some boroughs and was a leader in the successful campaign to fully reinstate the City’s recycling program. Through his Community Action Center, Thompson has helped more than 40,000 New Yorkers with problems regarding City services.
The Comptroller has spearheaded the creation of the largest Emerging Managers program in the United States. With the approval of the New York City Pension Funds, the Comptroller authorized a $175 million allocation to a groundbreaking Emerging Managers program targeting first-time funds, particularly those managed and owned by women and members of minority groups.
Thompson has been a leader among institutional investors in advancing important corporate governance and corporate social responsibility reforms such as the repeal of the classified structure of corporate boards and the annual election of directors, the establishment of a board protocol for addressing shareholder proposals that win majority votes, a prohibition against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the adoption of stronger standards of director independence for members of key board committees, as well as the adoption of standards for the protection of the environment and human rights globally.
He gained a national reputation for his efforts to stop corporations - Halliburton, General Electric, ConocoPhillips, Cooper Cameron, and the Aon Corporation - from engaging in business with countries that are identified by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terrorism. Thompson also worked with leaders of the financial services industry in bringing about reform at the New York Stock Exchange.
Thompson graduated from Tufts University, where he currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees. He graduated from Brooklyn’s P.S. 161, Andries Hudde Intermediate School and Midwood High School. In 1998, Thompson was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Mercy College.
Following his work for a Brooklyn congressman and his service as the borough’s youngest-ever Deputy Borough President, Thompson was appointed to the New York City Board of Education in 1994. Two years later, he began the first of five consecutive terms as its President. During that period, Thompson led a reform agenda that resulted in improved student achievement and greater public accountability. Thompson also served as a Senior Vice President for Public Finance at an investment banking firm in the early 1990s. Thompson lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Maria Thomson is the Executive Director of the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation (GWDC) and the Woodhaven Business Improvement District (BID). Ms. Thomson has been the Executive Director of the GWDC for over seventeen years and was a founding member of Woodhaven BID. She first became involved with the GWDC through the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association (WRBA), of which she has been the President for twenty years. The GWDC works for stores and businesses throughout Woodhaven, Queens and administers the Woodhaven BID, which is one of only three BID’s located in Southwest Queens. During Ms. Thomson’s tenure, the WBID has been the recipient of the first Citywide “Barbara Wolff Award of Excellence” and has worked to improve the neighborhood of Woodhaven.
Ms. Thomson is a committed community activist. She has been involved with the Jamaica Hospital for the last nineteen years and with Forest Park for the last eighteen years. She is currently working hard to see that the Forest Park Carousel – the jewel of the park – is declared a landmark. Ms. Thomson is currently the President of the 102nd Precinct Community Council and has been involved with the organization for over twenty years. She has also been a member of Community Board #9 for twenty-one years. In total, Ms. Thomson has dedicated the last thirty years of her life working to improve and maintain Woodhaven as a safe, viable, and stable community.
Congressman Anthony D. Weiner was born and raised in Brooklyn. The son of a public school teacher, and the product of our public schools, Anthony graduated Brooklyn Technical High School in 1981 and SUNY Plattsburgh in 1985.
A true product of New York's hardworking middle class, Anthony Weiner knows the challenges most families face, and has worked hard to make sure that all New Yorkers get a shot at a good life. After college, he went to work for then-Congressman Charles Schumer. After more than six years working for Schumer, Weiner launched a long shot bid for the City Council. He inspired his neighbors with his campaign based on “no promises - just hard work,” and won a six-way primary and a four-way general election to become – at the time – the youngest person ever elected to the City Council.
In his years in the City Council, Weiner won a reputation as a thoughtful fighter for New York's neighborhoods. He initiated programs that tackled “quality of life” concerns. He started a program that put at-risk and troublesome teens to work cleaning graffiti. He called them “Weiner's Cleaners.” He spearheaded development plans for historic Sheepshead Bay that led to a revival of the area.
Anthony Weiner also won citywide recognition for his efforts as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Housing. He fought to increase federal funding for Public Housing, to ban dangerous dogs from the projects and to add more police officers to the beat. But it was his investigation into the cause of sudden and fatal stairwell fires that made him front page news. He exposed dangerous practices that eventually led the city to replace the paint in developments citywide.
When Congressman Schumer decided to run against Senator Al D'Amato in 1998, Weiner ran to replace him in the district that included Brooklyn and Queens. Anthony Weiner pursued a dogged door-to-door grassroots campaign and was elected to Congress. There, he was appointed to the powerful Judiciary Committee and was elected “Whip” of his class. After September 11th, Weiner was the only New Yorker appointed by the Democratic Leader to serve on the Homeland Security Task Force.
In 2005, animated by the plight of the middle class and those struggling to make it, Weiner ran for Mayor of New York City. His straight talk message of tax cuts for New York’s middle class families, better schools for New York’s kids and cutting government waste resonated across the five boroughs. He surged more than 20 points in the final days of the primary, placing a close second behind Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, forcing a potentially contentious runoff. With a general election only eight short weeks away, Weiner decided party unity was of paramount concern. In a move that earned the respect of the public, his colleagues and Democratic Party leaders, he unified the party by conceding the race and backing Ferrer, his one-time opponent, as the Democratic nominee.
Anthony Weiner currently sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has the largest jurisdiction in the U.S. House, overseeing telecommunications, public health, air quality and environmental protection, the nation’s energy policy, and interstate and foreign commerce. He also serves on the Judiciary Committee and as a part of the Democratic leadership team.
Anthony Weiner lives in Forest Hills, Queens. He has brought millions of dollars home to New York City: Funds to restore our city's parks and beaches; funds to improve the collection of DNA to solve crimes against women; funds for programs for developmentally disabled; funds to combat pests that have ravaged our trees; funds for additional police officers; funds to improve pedestrian safety; funds to bring ferry transportation to more New Yorkers; and even funds to clean graffiti.
He has also fought to uphold New York values. The National Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) praised him for his vigilant efforts on behalf of a woman's right to choose. He has won perfect scores from our nation's largest environmental groups. And Congressman Weiner was given the “honor” of a grade of “F” from the National Rifle Association.
Randi Weingarten is president of the United Federation of Teachers, representing more than 150,000 active and retired educators in the New York City public school system. She is also a vice-president of the 1.2-millionmember American Federation of Teachers and a board member of New York State United Teachers. Weingarten, a vice-president of the New York City Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO, also heads the city Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella organization for some 100 city employee unions. The MLC negotiates benefits on behalf of the unions’ 365,000 members. She was elected for the second time in 2004.
As a teacher of history at Clara Barton High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, from 1991 to 1997, Weingarten helped her students win several state and national awards. From 1986 to 1998, Weingarten served as counsel to UFT President Sandra Feldman, taking a lead role in contract negotiations and in lawsuits in which the union fought for adequate school funding and building conditions. Elected as the union's assistant secretary in 1995 and treasurer two years later, she assumed the UFT presidency in 1998 after Feldman became president of the AFT. She was elected to her first full term the following year and re-elected twice since then. Under Weingarten’s leadership, salaries of Department of Education employees represented by the UFT have increased by more than a third.
Weingarten holds degrees from Cornell University and the Cardozo School of Law. She worked as a lawyer for the New York firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1983 to 1986. Weingarten was chairperson of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York and a board member of the N.Y.C. Independent Budget Office. She is on the boards of directors of the Justice Resource Center and Council for Unity (both student-related groups); the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH); the United Way of Greater New York; the International Rescue Committee; the New York Downtown Alliance and the newly formed Math for America. She is on the advisory board of Operation Public Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Democratic National Committee member.
