About the Commissioner

Saloni Sethi (they/she) is the Commissioner for the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV), where they bring over two decades of experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to a critical leadership role focused on improving the lives of survivors at the city level. She leads the office’s work to ensure that diverse groups of gender violence survivors have meaningful access to support both within and outside of carceral systems and is focused on centering racial equity and multiple pathways to healing in program and policy development. 

Saloni’s work is deeply informed by their own lived experiences, and they are passionate about anti-violence and anti-poverty work that addresses intersecting issues of power, privilege, and oppression through collective, collaborative, and intentional efforts to undo harm and ensure justice for the most vulnerable in our communities. Prior to her current role, Saloni worked as the First Deputy Commissioner at ENDGBV, the Deputy Executive Director at the Office of Crime Victim Supports at the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and as the Deputy Director of Economic Empowerment Programs at Sanctuary for Families. They received an MSW from the Silver School of Social work at New York University and a BA in Economics and BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago.