Zohran Mamdani on Monday unveiled his transition workforce committees, which included former members of the Adams administration who had been pushed out or resigned beneath the present mayor.
Former Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi, ex-Hearth Division Commissioner Laura Kavanagh and Hassan Naveed, Adams’ former hate crimes chief who accused him of anti-Muslim bias after being fired, are all engaged on the transition workforce. Arva Rice, who chaired the Civilian Grievance Evaluation Board till Adams requested her to step down can be on the workforce.
In whole, Mamdani has 400 individuals on his transition workforce throughout 17 committees. Compared, Adams had about 700 individuals on his transition workforce, whereas Mayor de Blasio had simply 60.
The members of the workforce, who serve in unpaid roles, will work to organize for the beginning of Mamdani’s time period on Jan. 1. Their work consists of sifting via some 70,000 job candidates for potential roles within the administration.
“We stand here with a remarkable opportunity to create a better New York the kind of opportunity that arrives if we’re lucky, once in a generation, And I could not ask for a better team to set that foundation,” Mamdani stated at a Harlem press convention to announce the workforce.
Professional-business Kathy Wylde, chief govt of the Partnership for New York Metropolis, is serving on the financial and workforce growth committee, as is Yasser Salem, who launched a PAC in Mamdani’s assist in the course of the election.
“I joined because I also know from experience that success comes not only from having a compelling vision,” stated Annemarie Grey, the chief director of Open New York, who will serve on the housing committee. “It also requires being very serious about effective governance and what it really takes to make bold ideas happen.”
Mamdani’s Group Security and Youth and Schooling committees had been stacked with advocates, together with advocates with VOCAL NY, Make the Highway, We Construct the Block, New York Appleseed and New Yorkers for Racially Simply Public Faculties. Rodney Harrison, who the Mamdani marketing campaign had thought-about as a doable police commissioner decide, can be on the workforce.
Josh Wallack, the architect of common pre-Okay beneath de Blasio, is on the workforce, as is Grace Rauh of Residents Union/5BORO, who has been on the forefront of the dialog of bringing the enterprise neighborhood into youngster care advocacy.
None of Mamdani rumored picks for public college chancellors, like Jamaal Bowman, Faculties Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, former Faculties Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter, Councilmember Rita Joseph and Kamar Samuels, a district superintendent in Harlem, had been on the checklist.
Mamdani beforehand introduced his transition co-chairs: Maria Torres-Springer, Mayor Adams’ former prime aide, ex-Federal Commerce Fee Chairwoman Lina Khan, United Method CEO Grace Bonilla and former Deputy Mayor for Well being and Human Providers Melanie Hartzog. Elana Leopold, a de Blasio alum, serves as govt director.
With Cayla Bamberger
