Mayor-elect Adams announces official transition team
Caribbean Life, N 8 OVEMBER 12-18, 2021
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By Morgan C. Mullings
Before Brooklyn Borough
President Eric Adams is sworn
in as mayor on Jan. 1, his new
team of executives, labor and
organizational leaders will lead
the vital transition process.
The full list of transition team
members hasn’t been released,
but Adams’ team announced
the co-chairs, such as Goldman
Sachs CFO Stephen Scherr, on
Nov. 10.
Perspective administartion
employees and those wanting
to get involved in the transition
can do so on Adams transition
website, adamstransition2021.
com.
“I am excited to get started
and to help Eric make New York
a safer, fairer, more prosperous
city for all New Yorkers,” said
Kyle Bragg, president of 32BJ
SEIU and co-chair of the transition
team. Bragg leads a union
of about 35,000 members in
New York City.
The team of 10 co-chairs is led
by Sheena Wright, president and
CEO of United Way of New York
City. Originally from the Bronx,
Wright is the first woman to
lead United Way of NYC. She is a
force in the nonprofit sector and
will likely be in charge of reviewing
the slew of applications for
Adams’ transition team that
will arrive in the coming weeks.
Wright also began Together we
Thrive, a Black business network
that provided technical support
to small businesses in the wake
of COVID-19.
“Over the next seven weeks,
we will task a dozen committees
and dozens of committed
experts and advocates with the
essential work of preparing the
Adams Administration to deliver
for New Yorkers,” the transition
chair said.
Adams’ team did not respond
immediately to requests for
comment on what these committees
will be.
Back in 2013, Mayor Bill de
Blasio’s transition team was led
by Jennifer Jones Austin and
Carl Weisbro, the latter of which
had a history in multiple mayoral
administrations before joining
de Blasio’s team. Austin had
a similar background to Adams’
chair—a history in nonprofit
work with low-income New
Eric Adams at a rally with union members before election day on Nov. 1.
Photo by Morgan C. Mullings
Yorkers.
The other co-chairs of
Adams’ transition team are Rich
Maroko, President of the New
York Hotel and Gaming Trades
Council, Sharon Greenberger,
President and CEO of YMCA of
Greater New York, Steven Choi,
Executive Director of One for
Democracy, David Lee, Chair
of the League of Asian Americans
of New York, Charles Phillips,
Infor CEO, Felix V. Matos
Rodriguez, Chancellor of The
City University of New York and
Darren Walker, President of the
Ford Foundation. Together, they
cover diverse communities of
residents, the education community,
labor stakeholders and
much more.
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