On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was greeting seniors at the Sage Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which caters to LGBTQ seniors. He was also introducing them to the newest members of his team, including the woman now in charge of all the city\u2019s senior centers: Lisa Scott-McKenzie, the new commissioner of the Department for the Aging.<\/p>\n
\u201cI bring decades of experience in public service,\u201d said Scott-McKenzie, who most recently served as chief operating officer at Woodhull Hospital in Bed-Stuy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn her leadership, we will see an easier city for older New Yorkers to keep living in, and a city where they can even afford to dream of staying in for the rest of their lives,\u201d\u00a0Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Lisa Scott-McKenzie, who previously served as chief operating officer at Woodhull Hospital, was named commissioner of the Department for the Aging
\n
Nisha Agarwal, who led the Office of Immigrant Affairs under Mayor de Blasio, is the new commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office for People with Disabilities
\n
Lisa Gelobter, who served in the Obama White House, is now the city\u2019s chief technology officer and commissioner of the Office of Technology and Innovation<\/p>\n
Mamdani also tapped longtime government veteran Nisha Agarwal as commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office for People with Disabilities. Her previous jobs included commissioner of Immigrant Affairs under Mayor Bill de Blasio, where she rolled out the IDNYC municipal ID card in 2015.<\/p>\n
She\u2019ll bring personal experience to the job, having subsequently suffered a stroke and been diagnosed with brain cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou learn a lot about things that have not worked,\u201d she told NY1. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m excited to work with the administration to make it more accessible to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also on hand was Lisa Gelobter, who will serve as the city\u2019s new chief technology officer and commissioner of the Office of Technology and Innovation. Her long career in tech included a stop in the Obama administration, where she launched technology initiatives at the Department of Education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to look at technology across the board \u2014 I think internal, I think external,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mamdani said: \u201cWhat she brings with her is both an awareness of what the public sector can look like at the highest levels of service, speaking about from the Obama White House, and then also what it can look like in the private sector, to deliver that for New Yorkers so that for working-class New Yorkers, it\u2019s easier than ever to engage with their city government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was greeting seniors at the Sage Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which caters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,25,3284,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-129620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bobby-cuza","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129620","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=129620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}