PROFILE
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Andrea Batista Schlesinger recently left City Hall where she was a Special Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. In this role she coordinated the Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, a comprehensive package of policy reform and programmatic initiatives designed to reduce the disparities challenging Black and Latino young males. For eight years prior to joining the administration, Andrea served as Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute, a leading progressive think tank focused on issues of economic policy, the middle-class, immigration reform and urban policy in New York City and beyond. She is the author of the book "The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy" (Berrett-Koehler: 2009).
- More Than Money: Bloomberg's Focus on Young Men of Color
Posted on August 16, 2011
ARCHIVES
VIEW FULL ARCHIVE- Improving Policing and Care for the Disabled
Posted on May 11, 2012 - Are Bad Rules Making Bad Cities?
Posted on April 30, 2012 - The Risks of Lien Sales
Posted on April 27, 2012 - Myths of the Minimum Wage
Posted on April 25, 2012 - Immigration and NYC's Resurgence
Posted on April 09, 2012
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CURRENT TOPICS
- Improving Policing and Care for the Disabled
- Are Bad Rules Making Bad Cities?
- The Risks of Lien Sales
- Myths of the Minimum Wage
- Immigration and NYC's Resurgence
- Time for Mandatory Paid Sick Leave in New York City?
- School Testing Drama: Are Students Center-Stage or a Sideshow?
- The GED: Private Property, Public Good
- Toward a Greener Brooklyn: Has Gov't Helped?
- Toward a Greener Brooklyn: Go Green, Fight Poverty
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- Robert Doar
- Richard Lipsky
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- Pedro Noguera
- Norman Oder
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- Moises Perez
- Michelle Holder
- Melissa Mark-Viverito
- Matthew Goldstein
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