Members

Letitia James, Public Advocate, Chair

Letitia James is the Public Advocate for the City of New York, the second highest ranking elected office in the City. She is the first woman of color to hold a citywide position in New York City history. Letitia James is a strong advocate for criminal justice reform, and led the push for police body-worn cameras in the NYPD.  She has a long history as an advocate for children and families: as a City Council Member, she fought for Paid Sick Leave, and passed the Safe Housing Act, which ensured that thousands of families in rental buildings receive prompt and full repairs to their apartments. She is a leading voice in the fight for universal free school lunch for all public school students. Letitia James is a lawyer, and previously served as an Assistant Attorney General and a public defender.

Clayton Banks, Borough Presidents’ Appointee

Clayton Banks is the Co-founder of Silicon Harlem. The company is designed to collaborate with the public and private sector to advance economic development, education initiatives, broadband infrastructure, innovation, data analytics and digital strategies.  Banks leads the company on innovative solutions for cities, companies, non-profits and communities that are planning for digital transformation.  His background in developing over 400 digital properties and working with over 200 top international brands has earned him several honors that include: induction into the United States Library of Congress, an ongoing product installation in the Clinton Presidential Library and a Manhattan Borough proclamation for technology leadership.

Dawn Barber, Public Advocate’s Appointee

Dawn Barber is the co-founder of NY Tech Meetup, a growing 48,000+ member non-profit industry organization that supports and promotes the New York technology community. She has extensive experience in planning and organizing conferences and events in and around the New York technology community, since having been one of NYNMA’s directors from 1998-2001, and since then producing the Shorty Awards and Gadgetoff among others. She was one of the first Pipeline Fellows, and sits on the boards of InSITE, MOUSE, Institute of Play and the Astia NYC Advisory Board. In addition, she serves on The New York City Commission on Public Information and Communication and chairs the New York Historical Society Leadership Council for their Silicon City exhibit.

Janet Choi, Delegate, Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment

Ms. Choi serves as General Manager Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

Ben Kallos,  City Council

New York City Council Member Ben Kallos, is an attorney and free and open source software developer who Chairs the Committee on Governmental Operations, with a focus on upgrading government through laws he has authored or co-sponsored to put the law, legislation, and city record online as well as legislation to help residents find affordable housing through a central registry or as featured in the New York Times provide human service benefits automatically.

Stephen Louis, Delegate, Corporation Counsel

Stephen Louis is the Corporation Counsel’s designee to serve on COPIC.  He is Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel for Legal Counsel, and Chief of the Legal Counsel Division of the Law Department.  In this position, Mr. Louis directs a unit of attorneys that advises the Mayor, other elected officials and New York City agencies on a wide range of municipal law issues, and drafts and reviews City, State and federal legislation and City agency rules.  He and others in his unit provide advice regarding FOIL inquiries and are in charge of the Law Department's own FOIL responses. Mr. Louis is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University School of Law.

Amen Ra Mashariki, Delegate, Mayor's Office of Data Analytics

Mr. Mashariki serves as the Chief Analytics Officer City of New York.

Isidro Medina, Mayor's Community Board Appointee

Consultant for the Renaissance Institute of Technology. Vice Chair for Licensing Committee of Community Board 12. Executive Vice President and Founder of the City College Latino Alumni Group and Director of the National Model United Nations-World’s Largest Collegiate Model UN, 1990-1993.  He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the City College of New York.

TBD, Delegate, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications

TBD

Sree Sreenivasan, Mayor's News Media Appointee

Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) is the first Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he leads a world-class team of 70 working on topics he loves: digital, social, mobile, video, data, email apps and more. He joined the Met after spending 20 years at Columbia University as a member of the faculty of the Columbia Journalism School and a year as the university's first Chief Digital Officer. In 2015, he was named to Fast Company's list of 100 Most Creative People in Business.

Pauline Toole, Commissioner Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)

Pauline Toole was appointed as the Commissioner of DORIS by Mayor Bill de Blasio in March, 2014.  The Department is responsible for setting and enforcing record management policy for all City agencies, preserving, protecting and making available City government’s historical materials, and providing information about government operations to the public. During her lengthy public service career, Ms. Toole developed the “We Are New York Community Project, ” which trained 900 volunteers to help 7,500 immigrant adults practice English; launched NYC’s successful Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Coalition in 2002 and grew it to the largest non-military EITC program in the country; and established administrative operations for the State’s Capital Defender Office.  Toole received her M.A. from New York University and her B.A. from the University of Michigan.