{"id":101910,"date":"2026-01-16T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:08:10","slug":"mamdani-taps-new-chief-equity-officer-who-axes-social-media-after-admins-prior-missteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101910\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani taps new ‘chief equity officer’ who axes social media after admin’s prior missteps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a new \u201cchief equity officer\u201d Thursday \u2013 and her social media was deleted by the time she was announced to lead the administration\u2019s woke \u201cracial justice\u201d efforts.<\/p>\n

Afua Atta-Mensah\u2019s <\/a>X account was deactivated by a press announcement of her appointment on Thursday afternoon in a move that comes after other Mamdani appointees\u2019 social media footprints set off firestorms.<\/p>\n

But City Hall insisted newly tapped aides aren\u2019t being asked to scrub their social media profiles.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani with his newly appointed \u201cchief equity officer\u201d Afua Atta-Mensah at a prress conference in Harlem on Jan. 15, 2026. John Angelillo\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cAfua Atta-Mensah has dedicated her career to serving the New Yorkers who are so often forgotten in the halls of power,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cThere is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atta-Mensah, who had worked on Mamdani\u2019s campaign focusing on trying to make headway with black voters. She\u2019ll now serve as commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office for Equity and Racial Justice, in which she will be charged with pushing for more racial equity across city government, City hall said.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s selections to help lead his administration have raised questions about his administration\u2019s vetting process for candidates for public service.<\/p>\n

Catherine Almonte Da Costa was supposed to be the city\u2019s next director of appointments<\/a>, but resurfaced antisemitic social media posts \u2014 including a rant about \u201cmoney hungry Jews\u201d \u2014 quickly led to her resignation last month.<\/p>\n

A source told The Post that Da Costa\u2019s appointment was pushed through without a full examination.<\/p>\n

Mamdani with Atta-Mensah and left-wing activist Tamika D. Mallory. Instagram\/tamikadmallory<\/p>\n

Following that embarrassing flub, Mamdani said his team was tweaking their vetting.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s new director in the Office to Protect Tenants, Cea Weaver, has also caused an avalanche of controversy after various extreme stances on home ownership and landlords<\/a> came to light.<\/p>\n

She once dismissed property ownership a \u201cweapon of white supremacy\u201d and called on the government to \u201cseize private property.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mamdani has stood by her despite the radical stances.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when Atta-Mensah deactivated her account, but it was up as recently as late last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the mayor\u2019s office told The Post that the administration has not adopted a policy requiring new appointees to delete their X accounts.<\/p>\n

Atta-Mensah\u2019s X account was deactivated before Mamdani announced that she was joining his administration. Kevin C. Downs<\/p>\n

Atta-Mensah previously worked as the chief of programs at Community Change \u2013 which claims to help low-income people, especially minorities, gain political and economic power.<\/p>\n

She also worked for activist groups Community Voices Heard and the Urban Justice Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored by this appointment, and ready to seek citywide justice and accountability on behalf of all New Yorkers,\u201d Atta-Mensah said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Mayor has made clear, this administration is committed to doing\u00a0big things\u00a0\u2014 and to doing them boldly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a new \u201cchief equity officer\u201d Thursday \u2013 and her social media was deleted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,57,9,24,55,54,56,12463,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-101910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-social-justice","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}