NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Latino Appointments
as of January 1, 2013
The NiLP Network on Latino Issues (January 1, 2013)
As promised, we will be monitoring NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's appointments to keep track of Latino representation in his new Administration. As of today, his Inauguration, he has made 17 appointments, 4 (or 23.5 percent) are Latinos, the same as for Blacks. Whites number 9 (or 52.9 percent), while no Asians have been appointed yet.
An interesting development has to do with the sex of the appointments. All of the Latino appointments are women, while all of the Black appointments are men. There is a much greater gender mix among the White appointees.
Please note that de Blasio is also asking some members of the Bloomberg Administration to stay on for various periods of time, which we are not factoring in at this point in our count.
The de Blasio appointments announced so far (as of January 1, 2013) are:
Latino Appointments
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
Carmen Farina, Schools Chancellor
Gladys Carrion, ACS Commissioner
Ursula Ramirez, Chief of Staff for Schools Chancellor
Black Appointments
Zachary Carter, Corporation Counsel
Kyle Kimball, President, NYC Economic Development Corporation
Gilbert Taylor, Commissioner of Homeless Services
Dominic Williams, Chief of Staff for First Deputy Mayor
White Appointments
Anthony Shorris, First Deputy Mayor
Alicia Glen , Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development
Laura Santucci, Mayor's Chief of Staff
Dean Fuleihan , Budget Director
Emma Wolfe, Director of Intergovernmental Relations
William Bratton, Police Commissioner
Polly Trottenberg, Transportation Commissioner
Bob Linn, Director of Labor Relations
Stanley Brezenoff, unpaid special adviser to Labor Relations Director
We will continue, from time to time, to monitor how Mayor de Blasio fills the more than 100 positions in city government. Please let us now whenever you hear of an appointment that we should be including in our analysis by writing to info@latinopolicy.org.