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    CityLaw Profile: Elizabeth Fine, General Counsel, Empire State Development Corporation

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    Elizabeth Fine became General Counsel and Executive Vice-President of the Empire State Development Corporation in 2014 after a long career of government service. Fine grew up in New Haven, Washington D.C., and Lima, Peru. Her family eventually settled in the Boston area, where Fine graduated Brookline High School. Jonathan Fine, Elizabeth’s father, had worked in Lima for the Agency for International Development while her mother, Edith W. Fine, was an administrator for the Peace Corp. Afterwards Fine’s mother worked as an attorney for Boston’s Corporation Counsel and later became a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, then rising to the Massachusetts Superior Court and the Massachusetts Court of Appeals. Fine’s father eventually became the Boston’s Deputy Commissioner of Health and founded the non-profit “Physicians for Human Rights.” (read more…)

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    Date:07/06/2020
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    CityLaw Profile: Elizabeth Glazer, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice

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    Elizabeth Glazer – Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice /> Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice
    1 Centre St., 10th Floor, Room 1012N
    New York, NY 10007
    646-576-3499

    On March 11, 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Elizabeth Glazer as the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, an office formed to advise the Mayor on criminal justice issues, public safety, bail reform, policing, and incarceration rates. Glazer took on the City role after serving as Governor Andrew Cuomo’s chief advisor on criminal justice. She came to the de Blasio administration with a wealth of experience in criminal justice and public safety, but did not originally intend that criminal justice work would be her career. (read more…)

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    Date:04/08/2020
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    CityLaw Profile: Allen P. Cappelli: City Planning Commission Member

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    On October 17, 2019, the City Council approved a plan to replace Rikers Island.  A month earlier, Allen P. Cappelli, a member of the City Planning Commission, had voted with the 9-3 majority in favor of the application. Cappelli called Rikers Island an “absolute abomination” and in need of “shuttering.” Cappelli’s vote reflected four decades of public service. (read more…)

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    Date:01/14/2020
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    CityLaw Profile: Caroline Harris – A Woman’s Journey to Land Use

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    Caroline Harris’s career as a land use attorney stems from an early interest in urban affairs and planning.  Harris was born in New York City and grew up in Peter Cooper Village. As a student at the then all-female Hunter College High School, she started the first student volunteer program for Head Start, earning Mayor Lindsay’s award for “Distinguished Volunteer Supervision.”  Harris spent five months in Israel before entering Trinity College, where she majored in Religious Studies and minored in Urban Planning. (read more…)

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    Date:10/28/2019
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    CityLaw Profile: Thomas McMahon of TLM Associates, LLC

    Thomas McMahon grew up in Staten Island, attended St. Joseph Hill Academy and Monsignor Farrell High School, and graduated from SUNY New Paltz. McMahon knew from a young age that he wanted to have a career in government and public service, and he felt that the best path forward included a law degree. (read more…)

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    Date:04/23/2019
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