Council Member Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, and the first Muslim woman in the City Council.

The increasingly diverse New York City Council has six members who identify as Asian American – all in their first term and all up for reelection this year. Shahana Hanif, Shekar Krishnan, Linda Lee, Chi Ossé, Sandra Ung & Julie WonĪnna Rathkopf Shekar Krishnan Campaign Monica Lee NYC Council Photography NYC Council Media Unit William Alatriste Among the plan’s action items are $58 million in Cultural Development Fund grants distributed to community organizations in all five boroughs and the launch of the Apprenticeship Accelerator program, which aims to connect 30,000 New Yorkers to apprenticeships by 2030. Led the city’s economic recovery blueprint, which features 70 action plans to spur economic growth.

In her first year, Torres-Springer Office of the New York City Mayor 1 priority as deputy mayor is to see New York City through its economic recovery. She also oversees Adams’ $14.5 million clean streets and parks initiative, which includes adding 200 new employees to the Sanitation Department. As New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ point person on city operations, Joshi is involved in the development of BQE Central, the city-owned portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway her office has made big steps to push forward the design development of the BQE Central. Meera Joshi heads a division responsible for everything from transit to quality-of-life matters. There’s a wider ideological spectrum among these officeholders as well, from progressives like Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani to his Republican colleagues Lester Chang and Anil Beephan Jr.Ĭity & State’s Power of Diversity: Asian 100 list features these elected officials and also highlights other power brokers who are managing government agencies, running businesses, advocating for policy changes – and ensuring Asian Americans have a voice at the table.ĭeputy Mayor for Operations Deputy Mayor for Economic and Workforce Development, Office of the New York City Mayor John Liu to politicians whose families emigrated from India, China, South Korea, Bangladesh or Nepal. Similarly, the New York City Council has gone from just two Asian Americans – Margaret Chin and Peter Koo, both term-limited in 2021 – to six today.Īs the growing Asian American community gains traction politically, more backgrounds are also being represented, from Taiwanese American trailblazers like Rep. Since then, their ranks have swelled to 12, four in the state Senate and eight in the Assembly. When state lawmakers formed an Asian American caucus in 2017, the only Asian American members were Assembly Members Ron Kim and Yuh-Line Niou.

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