{"id":87857,"date":"2026-01-03T01:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87857\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:35:04","slug":"what-is-the-mayors-office-of-mass-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87857\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Mass Engagement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/580biuaezdsueekp.jpg\" alt=\"FULL: Mamdani announces new Office of Mass Engagement\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/video\/fmc-8wrmzeglwlyrhy17\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL: Mamdani announces new Office of Mass Engagement<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces he will sign an executive order that will create a new Office of Mass Engagement, designed to create &#8220;a deeper connection between City Hall and&#8230; everyday New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order to establish New York City&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/01\/mayor-mamdani-establishes-office-of-mass-engagement-to-transform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Office of Mass Engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   Mayor&#8217;s Office of Mass Engagement <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mamdani signed the executive order earlier today, Jan. 2, at Grand Army Plaza.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This new office will work within City Hall and across multiple agencies to strategize and coordinate on implementing public feedback.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Working New Yorkers know what they need to thrive,&#8221; the mayor said during his announcement, as an explanation for the premise of the new office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mamdani also shared that Tascha Van Auken will serve as the commissioner for this new office.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/van-aucken.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Van Aucken mobilized over 100,000 volunteers and made over 4.5 million calls to New York City voters while Mamdani was campaigning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">She is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Office of Mass Engagement will oversee several city entities, including the Public Engagement Unit, NYC Service and the Mayor\u2019s Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The duties of the newly established office will include:<\/p>\n<p> Leading mass engagement campaigns designed to organize New Yorkers to participate in decision-making that will affect the cityCreating and maintaining accessible channels and events for residents to share their feedback with the city governmentProactively reaching out to communities that have &#8220;historically been excluded from policymaking&#8221;Embedding public feedback directly into city policies, programs and services <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from a press release from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/people\/zohran-mamdani\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULL: Mamdani announces new Office of Mass Engagement New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces he will sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,12,56,63,1232,618,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-87857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-people","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857","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=87857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}