Who’s who in Zohran Mamdani’s administration?

If Mamdani is a relative beginner, confronted at each flip with concern about his youth and lack of expertise, his choose for first deputy mayor is the other. Dean Fuleihan, at 74 years previous, has been across the block, having served as first deputy mayor to Bill de Blasio, and earlier than that, as his price range director. The choose is broadly seen as each a sensible strategic and tactical selection: Fuleihan’s profile helps mollify these involved about Mamdani’s relative lack of expertise, and his sensible expertise in Albany might assist advance Mamdani’s coverage guarantees. Fuleihan’s appointment was introduced on Nov. 10, 2025.

Mamdani faces stress to increase his tent, however he’s definitely not going to kick out the individuals who have been instrumental in constructing that tent. Choosing his former Assembly chief of workers turned mayoral marketing campaign supervisor to proceed on as chief of workers in his administration was an unsurprising, if nonetheless satisfying selection, for Mamdani’s base. Bisgaard-Church doesn’t come from the political guide class. She, like Mamdani, is a DSA member and (on the time of her hiring) 34 years previous. The indisputable fact that her hiring and Fuleihan’s have been introduced in a joint presser illustrated the type of stability Mamdani will attempt to strike in constructing out his administration. Bisgaard-Church’s appointment was introduced on Nov. 10, 2025.

If there’s one one who really “keeps the city running” it’s the deputy mayor for operations, who oversees companies like Transportation, Sanitation and Emergency Management. On Dec. 31 2025, Mamdani introduced his choose is Julia Kerson, who has served as deputy to the state director of operations in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s workplace. But like so many others in Mamdani’s orbit, she’s a de Blasio administration veteran, the place, amongst different roles, she was a senior adviser to Deputy Mayor of Operations Laura Anglin – working within the very workplace she’ll now lead. A Brooklynite lively with the Flatbush Jewish Center, in accordance with Mamdani’s transition crew, Kerson additionally beforehand labored on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on main initiatives together with the Second Avenue Subway extension.

Housing is central to Mamdani’s promise to make New York City extra reasonably priced. To lead his housing efforts, he tapped Leila Bozorg, a widely known civil servant who most just lately was Eric Adams’ govt director of housing. In that position, she helped negotiate the City of Yes for Housing rezoning coverage with the City Council, finally getting it handed. She’s additionally labored intently with Adams’ former Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer, who’s a co-chair of Mamdani’s transition committee. (Bozorg’s position just isn’t a precise duplicate of Torres-Springer’s beneath the Adams administration, as Mamdani has up to date the title to “deputy mayor for housing and planning,” and can embody some totally different companies beneath its portfolio.) Bozorg beforehand served as metropolis planning commissioner and a deputy commissioner within the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She was a senior coverage adviser on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development throughout the Obama administration. Bozorg’s appointment was introduced on Dec. 19, 2025.

Mamdani created a brand new deputy mayor position with a portfolio that features the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Commission on Human Rights, the Department of Small Business Services and several other different companies. Julie Su was previously performing secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor beneath the Biden administration. She was never confirmed by the Senate regardless of two nomination makes an attempt, however acquired reward from Mamdani supporter and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, who known as her an “outstanding leader of the Labor Department.” Su is model new to New York, and simply moved to Brooklyn from California in March to formally begin her position as deputy mayor, after beforehand serving as a volunteer and a senior adviser. Su’s appointment was introduced on Dec. 19, 2025.

The appointment of Renita Francois to move up the brand new Mayor’s Office for Community Safety was welcome information to many legal justice reformers and advocates. It additionally corrected Mamdani’s misstep in failing to nominate a Black deputy mayor at first of this tenure. But massive questions stay about Francois’ position and the extent of her authority within the new workplace. Her portfolio, which incorporates a number of social companies places of work and coverage oversight of the B-HEARD civilian emergency response program, is far smaller than that of the opposite deputy mayors. But she’s operating one in every of Mamdani’s most extremely anticipated efforts: altering the way in which the town handles its most weak. Francois beforehand served within the de Blasio administration as govt director of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety. Mamdani appointed Francois on March 19, 2026.

The price range director’s affect over how the town spends $115 billion makes them among the many strongest individuals within the administration. Sherif Soliman joins Mamdani’s administration after stints within the administrations of the previous three mayors, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and, most just lately, CUNY. Under Adams, he led the Mayor’s Office of Policy and Planning. Under de Blasio, he was commissioner of the Department of Finance. He has additionally beforehand served as govt director of the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform, expertise which will turn out to be useful as Mamdani has vowed to reform the town’s infamous property tax system. His appointment was introduced on Dec. 18, 2025.

A affluent metropolis, Mamdani mentioned (paraphrasing W.E.B. DuBois), is outlined by an absence of poverty and a prevalence of well being. Leading the Mamdani’s administration’s efforts on the latter will likely be Helen Arteaga, who most just lately served as CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. She took on that job roughly a 12 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and known as it the place the place her advocacy was born. Previously, she was an govt at Urban Health Plan and co-founded Plaza del Sol Family Health Center. Arteaga was born in Ecuador and in contrast herself to Mamdani, calling herself “just another immigrant kid from Queens.” She described the work that can quickly be beneath her portfolio – sometimes protecting the Department of Health, NYC Health + Hospitals and the Department of the Social Services, amongst different companies – because the “safety net” for a lot of New Yorkers. Mamdani introduced her appointment on Dec. 30, 2025.

Mamdani’s right-hand adviser on authorized points will likely be Ramzi Kassem, a former senior adviser within the Biden White House on immigration, amongst different matters. More just lately, he served on Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team and is the founding director of a authorized clinic at CUNY that goals to guard Muslim and different communities unfairly focused by the federal government. (That work led him down an unexpected path of moonlighting as a guide on the TV present “Homeland.”) Kassem mentioned he has felt a name to service in New York City after rising up in “war-torn countries in the Middle East” and beneath “authoritarian regimes.” As chief counsel at City Hall, Kassem mentioned that he’ll work with the mayor to “defend the rights of all New Yorkers, without exception.” Mamdani introduced Kassem’s appointment on Dec. 30, 2025.

Another Bill de Blasio alum is poised to affix the Mamdani administration in a top-level put up with the nomination of Steven Banks to company counsel. The former commissioner of the Department of Social Services and former attorney-in-chief on the Legal Aid Society will – City Council affirmation pending – lead the Law Department after working each in alignment and towards it, together with on protecting the town’s proper to shelter mandate. As company counsel, Banks will likely be concerned in any litigation with the Trump administration, although neither he nor Mamdani shed a lot mild on their technique. Banks may also be main a division that Mamdani has mentioned he needs to beef up with a number of hundred extra legal professionals amid a staffing scarcity. Mamdani introduced Banks’ nomination on Dec. 30, 2025, and he was confirmed by the City Council on Feb. 12.

To obtain a few of his prime coverage guarantees, Mamdani will want a hand from different ranges of presidency. To lead that coordination between metropolis, state and federal officers, Mamdani tapped longtime union operative Jahmila Edwards. Edwards was beforehand the affiliate director of District Council 37, the politically highly effective union representing 150,000 public sector staff. She served within the position for 11 years, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile. DC 37 fashioned a detailed relationship with Mamdani after rating him on their endorsement slate within the Democratic major when most main unions backed Andrew Cuomo. Edwards can be a former staffer of Bill de Blasio, working in his administration’s Department of Education and as his deputy chief of workers whereas he was public advocate, and is presently a district chief for central Brooklyn’s Assembly District 43. Edwards’ appointment was introduced on Dec.17, 2025.

Mamdani is popping to an alum of his political hero to guide his communications crew. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ communications director Anna Bahr will be part of the Mamdani administration to serve in the identical position. It’s Bahr’s first gig in New York City authorities – a function relatively than a quirk, she’s recommended – and she or he’ll be main a brand new communications crew, together with Joe Calvello (a Sanders, Brandon Johnson and John Fetterman alum) as press secretary, and marketing campaign holdovers Julian Gerson as director of speechwriting, Dora Pekec as senior spokesperson and Lekha Sunder as deputy communications director.

The query each mayoral candidate confronted throughout the 2025 election: Would you keep Jessica Tisch as police commissioner? Mamdani answered that twice: simply earlier than the final common election debate, with a said need to rent Tisch, and some weeks after being elected, with an announcement that she accepted the supply. Tisch, a 17-year bureaucrat, three-time metropolis commissioner and scion of a billionaire household, diverges from Mamdani on some key policing points. Both say they’re dedicated to working collectively to make the town safer regardless of these variations. Tisch’s appointment was introduced on Nov. 19, 2025.

It could also be known as the fireplace division, however many of the calls are for emergency medical companies, and Mamdani’s choose on Dec. 23, 2025 is an acknowledgment of that. Bonsignore retired from the FDNY in 2022 as chief of the EMS division after a decadeslong profession as an emergency medical technician. She’ll take over as simply the second feminine and first out homosexual hearth commissioner. Her appointment was welcomed by EMS staff who’ve been lobbying for pay parity with different first responders.

On Dec. 31, 2025, Mamdani introduced Manhattan District 3 superintendent Kamar Samuels would take over as faculties chancellor, beginning Jan. 1. News of the appointment was first reported by City & State. Samuels, who started his profession as a Bronx elementary faculty trainer practically 20 years in the past, rose by way of the ranks of the DOE, changing into a principal, then main two totally different Brooklyn faculty districts as superintendent and deputy superintendent earlier than he took over on Manhattan’s west facet. Samuels is thought for efficiently overseeing faculty mergers, a tough course of involving passionate workers, college students and fogeys. Mamdani additionally touted Samuels’ success bettering literacy scores.

There’s an ER renaissance on our TV screens and in our well being division. Jackson Heights (or New Jersey?)-native Dr. Alister Martin turns into New York City’s well being commissioner after most just lately working as an emergency room doctor in Massachusetts. Martin went to Harvard Medical School and likewise obtained a public coverage diploma from the Kennedy School, in accordance with his LinkedIn. Martin’s resume additionally options public-facing well being nonprofits, giving him not simply medical however public well being and civic engagement expertise as he units out to guide a division that’s combating flu outbreaks and discordant messaging from the federal authorities. Martin’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 31, 2026.

Mamdani introduced on Dec. 29, 2025 that he can be renominating Dr. Mitchell Katz as president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals. Katz first took the put up in 2017 and was reappointed in 2021. Things usually are not fairly official but: Just because it did in 2021, the general public hospital system’s board of administrators will need to vote to approve Katz following Mamdani’s nomination, nevertheless it’s very doubtless it should give Katz the inexperienced mild. Notably, that is separate from the New York City Council course of approving members of the town’s Board of Health – the chamber had rejected Eric Adams’ nomination of Katz to that board in November, wanting to depart it as much as the incoming administration.

In his first act as mayor within the previous City Hall subway station on Jan. 1, 2026, Mamdani appointed transportation planner Mike Flynn as his transportation commissioner. Overseeing the town’s transportation networks will likely be a high-profile job beneath a mayor who has promised to make buses free. (Though after all the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a state company.) Flynn joins the administration from the personal sector, the place he labored as a guide for TYLin City Solutions (previously referred to as Sam Schwartz Engineering). Before that, Flynn labored for years within the DOT.

Making positive the trash will get picked up and the snow will get plowed is in some methods essentially the most seen and consequential job of the mayor, and Gregory Anderson will likely be liable for that as sanitation commissioner. He joins the administration after two large winter storms walloped New York City inside weeks of each other. The interim commissioner, Javier Lojan, will return to the position of first deputy. Anderson was most just lately deputy director of state operations beneath Gov. Kathy Hochul, the place he labored intently with former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, The City reported. Anderson’s appointment was introduced on March 18, 2026.

On Dec. 31, 2025, Mamdani introduced Ahmed Tigani would function his buildings commissioner. Tigani served as performing commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development beneath Adams, throughout which he oversaw the launches of main mixed-income housing initiatives on city-owned land at 100 Gold Street in decrease Manhattan and 395 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn. He’s additionally a de Blasio alum, having served within the former mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as a housing and financial improvement adviser. Tigani, a planner by coaching, has been in and round housing organizing for 15 years. He began his profession on the Department of Cultural Affairs in 2007. As Department of Buildings commissioner, Tigani will likely be liable for the company that regulates the development trade, permits initiatives and enforces metropolis zoning regulation.

Tapped to guide the town’s housing company on Jan. 4, Dina Levy will likely be on the frontlines tackling the town’s historic housing disaster. She joins the Mamdani administration from the state’s housing company the place she most just lately served because the high-ranking senior vice chairman of single household and group improvement at New York’s Division of Homes and Community Renewal. As commissioner, Levy will likely be tasked with a raft of housing-related tasks: administering rental vouchers, preserving reasonably priced items, operating the reasonably priced housing lotteries, penalizing dangerous actor landlords and financing new incoming-restricted housing developments. 

Mamdani tapped Paul Ochoa, an alum of the Department of Transportation, Department of Sanitation, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, to guide the town’s Department of Design and Construction on April 22, 2026. Ochoa is hoping to ship the town’s development initiatives quicker beneath the brand new administration. 

A veteran civil servant will lead New York City’s workplace of civil servants. Yume Kitasei obtained her begin in municipal work throughout an internship with the town comptroller’s vouchering workplace and labored her means as much as serving as chief of workers to former First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright beneath the final administration. Kitasei will oversee the greater than 2,000-person company liable for outfitting the town – with staff, workplace house, autos and extra. Kitasei might have a leg up in approaching these efforts with a inventive twist: She’s additionally the writer of a number of speculative fiction novels. Kitasei’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

Mamdani is pulling from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission class of 2021 but once more to fill out his crew. Sam Levine, who known as himself a current New Yorker, led the Bureau of Consumer Protection on the FTC beneath Biden. That expertise will overlap with lots of the aspects that he and Mamdani have highlighted in describing the work forward of him as DCWP commissioner, together with going after supply app firms exploiting staff, and defending customers and small companies from scammers. Levine’s appointment was introduced Dec. 22, 2025.

Former Fortune Society govt Stanley Richards will make historical past as the primary previously incarcerated individual to function commissioner of the town’s Department of Correction. Richards may also be navigating the place in a singular second, as a decide has chosen a “remediation manager” to spearhead reforms of the dilapidated and harmful Rikers Island, who may also have authority over the division. Richards’ appointment was introduced on Jan. 31, 2026.

Emphasizing the significance of parks as a free public good open to all, Mamdani introduced on Jan. 17, 2026 that Tricia Shimamura would take over the parks division. As parks commissioner, Shimamura will likely be liable for the upkeep of 30,000 acres of parkland throughout the town, together with practically 1,000 playgrounds and 65 public swimming pools. Shimamura most just lately served because the Manhattan borough parks commissioner. She was beforehand a lobbyist for Columbia University and a staffer to former Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and former Rep. Carolyn Maloney. She ran for City Council in 2021, dropping the first to now City Council Speaker Julie Menin.

It solely took seven months and numerous complaints from enterprise leaders for Zohran Mamdani to lastly announce Anthony Shorris because the chief of the town’s Economic Development Corporation on July 22, 2026. The EDC champions the town’s financial development by way of actual property administration and quite a lot of public-private partnerships. Shorris is the latest de Blasio alum within the mayor’s administration, and has labored in metropolis authorities since 1978. The former McKinsey companion’s appointment was praised by the town’s enterprise group, who’ve voiced considerations that the mayor does not care in regards to the metropolis’s economic system. But Shorris’ historical past combating for common pre-Ok and the next minimal wage makes him a helpful ally to Mamdani’s financial justice-focused imaginative and prescient for the company.

For Lina Khan, it was in all probability not a lot a query of when she would formally be part of the Mandani administration, however in what position. After all, the previous Federal Trade Commission chair has been a extremely influential adviser to the mayor throughout his transition and the primary seven months of his tenure. On July 22, 2026, Mamdani introduced that Khan would get a extra everlasting position, tapping her to serve as board chair of the town’s Economic Development Corporation – a place during which she’d be working intently with the company’s new chief, metropolis authorities veteran Tony Shorris. The board is tasked with approving the EDC’s many initiatives and offers, giving Khan a strong perch to steer the town’s arm of financial improvement.

A state authorities, Biden administration and nonprofit alum will lead the Department of Environmental Protection in offering New Yorkers with clear ingesting water. Lisa Garcia beforehand served as Environmental Protection Agency administrator for Region 2 beneath Biden, and held positions prior to that on the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the authorized nonprofit Earthjustice. Garcia has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s cuts to the EPA since her departure from the company. Garcia’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

It was the skilled information heard around the world. The City Council’s finance director was being poached by the Mamdani administration to guide the Department of Finance. Richard Lee led the council’s price range negotiations beneath former Speaker Adrienne Adams, and he beforehand labored for Queens Borough President Donovan Richards. Now, he’ll oversee the town’s income assortment. News of the appointment was first reported by Politico on March 16, 2026. The Mamdani administration introduced the appointment on March 20, 2026. 

New period, new sheriff. Mamdani appointed Edwin Raymond as New York City sheriff, changing Anthony Miranda, who served within the place beneath the Adams administration. The change in management is not any shock, considering Miranda was one of many Adams leaders who confronted an official investigation – on this case by the town Department of Investigation. But it took practically six months for Mamdani to nominate a brand new chief, naming Raymond on May 29, 2026. Raymond is a former police lieutenant and was the social justice liaison within the state lawyer common’s workplace.

The new commissioner of the Department of Veterans’ Services, Yesenia Mata, serves as a navy police sergeant within the Army, leads an immigration and labor rights group, and is bringing some Staten Island variety to the Mamdani administration. Mata, who would be the first Latina to serve within the place, represents the borough on the New York City Racial Justice Commission. As commissioner, she’ll be main one of many smaller companies within the metropolis, which chronically finds itself combating for assets. Her appointment was introduced on Jan. 31, 2026.

Lisa Scott-McKenzie, a longtime worker of the town’s public hospital system, was appointed commissioner of the Department for the Aging the place she’ll oversee the Mamdani administration’s efforts to assist the town’s oldest residents. Scott-McKenzie has labored throughout the  New York City Health + Hospitals system for 4 many years, beginning as a stenographic secretarial affiliate in radiology in 1986, in accordance with her biography shared by the Mamdani administration. Most just lately, she served as chief working officer at New York City Health + Hospitals/Woodhull. Her appointment was introduced on Feb. 10, 2026.

The relationship between a mayor and a Department of Investigation commissioner generally is a tough one. Mamdani nominated Nadia Shihata, a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, to guide that delicate work, which can contain investigating corruption and wrongdoing in metropolis authorities. If the previous couple administrations are any indication, these investigations may very well be problematic for, and even instantly contain, the mayor. Shahita’s high-profile prosecutorial work consists of main the case towards singer R. Kelly. Mamdani introduced Shahita’s nomination on Feb. 12, 2026. She was authorized by the New York City Council on April 16, 2026

Diya Vij has labored at a bevy of arts and cultural organizations, together with the Queens Museum, the High Line and Creative Time and most just lately as vice chairman of Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts. As the brand new commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, she’ll be the primary individual of South Asian heritage to carry the place. There, she’ll be tasked with steering the town’s arts funding and cultural applications. Vij’s appointment was first introduced on Feb. 28, 2026.

DORIS has a brand new boss. Mamdani appointed Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz commissioner of the Department of Records and Information Services, the town’s archive of presidency and different historic information. Smith-Cruz most just lately served as dean of the Barnard College Library. She was appointed on April 22, 2026.

Kenny Minaya, a lawyer and longtime metropolis official, was tapped to guide the town’s Department of Small Business Services – a place anticipated to be central to Mamdani’s purpose to cut back fines and charges on small companies. Minaya beforehand served as first deputy commissioner on the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and spent the higher a part of a decade on the company, however he began his profession as a housing lawyer defending immigrant tenants towards predatory landlords. Minaya’s appointment was first introduced on March 2, 2026.

Mamdani is bringing a profession Department of Probation worker out of retirement to guide the company. Sharun Goodwin first served as an intern on the division in 1986 and rose to deputy commissioner for grownup operations by the point she retired in 2024. The Bronx native mentioned that beneath her management the division will strike a stability of lowering recidivism and holding individuals accountable, saying that “public safety and compassion are not opposing forces.” Goodwin’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

Sandra Escamilla-Davies has labored intently with metropolis companies in lengthy held positions on the Youth Development Institute and Children’s Aid, however the social employee will now lead the town company accountable for afterschool applications, youth workforce improvement and extra. Escamilla-Davies’ appointment was introduced on Jan. 31, 2026.

Previously the primary deputy commissioner of New York City Emergency Management, Christina Farrell has labored on the company for 23 years to assist lead New York by way of crises akin to Hurricane Sandy and the COVID-19 pandemic. She created the company’s first exterior affairs divisions and has overseen applications akin to Community Emergency Response Teams and Ready New York, a public training initiative. Farrell’s appointment was introduced on Feb. 16, 2026.

Previously the commissioner of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice beneath Mayor Eric Adams, Sideya Sherman is becoming a member of the Mamdani administration to guide the highly effective Department of City Planning and the City Planning Commission. Both are essential roles. Sherman, who has intensive expertise working in public housing and racial justice, will take the helm at a time of nice momentum for housing improvement within the metropolis.  Her appointment was introduced on Feb. 24, 2026. 

Lights, digital camera, Espinal. The former New York City Council member will head the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, liable for all method of “Made in NY” productions, together with the rising movie and tv trade. The workplace can be liable for approving press credentials and manages inventive workforce improvement applications. Following his six years within the council, Espinal served as govt director and president of the Freelancers Union, which advocates for truthful work and cost to impartial staff. Espinal’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 12.

Formerly the director of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Dalton will now lead the town’s major safety-net companies. In Pennsylvania, she oversaw homelessness companies, baby welfare, and behavioral well being applications. Her New York transfer places her accountable for the town’s Human Resources Administration and Department of Homeless Services at a time when demand for housing help and money help stays excessive. She was appointed on Feb. 25, 2026.

Mamdani has chosen Rebecca Jones Gaston as the subsequent Administration of Children’s Services commissioner. ACS addresses baby abuse and neglect instances, and handles foster care and juvenile justice. Gaston has many years of expertise working in baby welfare programs and from 2022 to 2025, she served as commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After serving as commissioner of ACYF, Gaston based a consulting firm in February 2025 to strengthen human companies programs. Gaston says she was adopted from the foster care system, according to The City. Her appointment adopted a turbulent vetting process throughout which two prime contenders who have been extremely essential of the company didn’t work out. Mamdani introduced Gaston as the brand new ACS commissioner on April 7, 2026.

Mamdani tapped Nisha Agarwal on Feb. 10, 2026 to make sure that all New Yorkers have entry to assets, companies and areas within the metropolis. A public curiosity lawyer, Agarwal is not any stranger to authorities. She led the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs beneath the de Blasio administration and served as senior adviser to then-Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Phil Thompson, specializing in immigration, individuals with disabilities and justice-involved communities. She has most just lately served as coverage and communications director on the metropolis’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Faiza Ali has labored within the City Council for over a decade, most just lately as former Speaker Adrienne Adams’ first deputy chief of workers. A daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she has labored in director-level positions at group organizations such because the Arab American Association of New York and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. She served with Mamdani on the board of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York. She has helped lead efforts to incorporate two Muslim holidays within the metropolis faculty system and has additionally fought for immigration reform. Her appointment was introduced on Feb. 17, 2026, and she is going to start working to each defend immigrants throughout the 5 boroughs and enhance metropolis program accessibility to New Yorkers who don’t communicate English.

As the co-director of the New York Working Families Party, Ana María Archila performed a task in steering the get together’s assist to Mamdani each within the major and within the common election. As worldwide affairs commissioner, she is going to act as the town’s chief liaison to the United Nations and State Department. Previously, Archila ran for lieutenant governor. She has additionally co-founded and led grassroots progressive organizations, like Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy. Archila’s appointment was introduced on Feb. 17, 2026.

Mayor Eric Adams known as her a “champion.” Mamdani seems to agree. Renee Campion will proceed to function commissioner of the Office of Labor Relations, liable for negotiating the town’s labor contracts for 300,000-plus staff. That means unions, together with ones that endorsed Mamdani like District Council 37, may have a well-known face in City Hall. Campion’s reappointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

One of a handful of official holdovers of the Adams administration, Vilda Vera Mayuga was introduced as Mamdani’s OATH commissioner, overseeing the division’s wide selection of administrative hearings on workforce disciplinary instances, sure landlord/tenant disputes, battle of curiosity violations and extra. Mayuga most just lately served as commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection beneath the Adams administration, the place her work seems to have made an influence on Mamdani. Many of the brand new DCWP’s commissioner first (and high-profile) actions, are finishing up work began beneath the final administration. Mayuga’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 31, 2026.

On Jan. 13, the mayor nominated Midori Valdivia to function chair and commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, placing her on the helm of the nation’s largest fleet of for-hire autos the place she’ll be tasked with regulating greater than 115,000 yellow taxis, Ubers and Lyft vehicles. Valdivia is a veteran within the transit world. While she’s presently a Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member, she’s beforehand served as a deputy commissioner on the Taxi and Limousine Commission. And earlier than that, Valdivia was senior adviser to the chief director on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Her appointment to the Mamdani administration was authorized by the City Council on March 26.

Mamdani needs to show he can get stuff finished (even when he won’t subscribe to the previous mayor’s chosen phrasing) and he’s leaning on an alum of the New York City Comptroller’s workplace to show that authorities companies are able to working collectively to do it. Annie Levers is taking up as director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations, an workplace beneath the deputy mayor for operations that’s tasked with interagency efforts like Vision Zero and producing the report card on company efficiency referred to as the Mayor’s Management Report. Levers was employed by former metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander, finally main public coverage improvement in his workplace, and likewise beforehand labored within the City Council and on the Pratt Center for Community Development. Levers’ appointment was introduced on April 22, 2025.

Mamdani wouldn’t have turn into mayor with out the mass mobilization of tens of hundreds of volunteers who knocked an estimated 3 million doorways for him. The girl who led that effort is Tascha Van Auken, a dedicated organizer who ran two democratic socialist campaigns earlier than she joined Mamdani. On Jan. 2, Mamdani introduced that she was coming with him to City Hall to guide the newly created Office of Mass Engagement. Not so totally different from the kind of work Van Auken did on the marketing campaign path, the workplace would work inside City Hall and throughout metropolis companies to assist drive group participation.

Mamdani’s new Office of Community Safety has simply 5 workers members, and two are main it: Deputy Mayor Renita Francois and now Commissioner Ayesha Delany-Brumsey. Delany-Brumsey has an intensive public well being background. She has a doctorate in medical psychology and beforehand labored within the Office of Behavioral Health at New York City Health + Hospitals and on the restoration nonprofit Fountain House. She can be an alum of the de Blasio administration. As commissioner, she’ll assist arrange the fledgling workplace, which might finally overhaul the town’s strategy to public security. Mamdani appointed Delany-Brumsey on May 4.

Stephanie Silkowski is the second individual Mamdani has named to guide his workplace of appointments. The first, Cat Almonte Da Costa, stepped down virtually instantly after she was introduced because the incoming director in December, following previous antisemitic tweets coming to mild for which she apologized. Silkowski, who scrubbed her own Twitter account, is a former director at The Bridge Project, which supplies money help to low-income moms, and labored for Council Member Tiffany Cabán and former Council Member Brad Lander. Silkowski’s appointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

Child care coverage guide Emmy Liss brings her experience shaping the town’s 3-Ok and pre-Ok programs beneath former Mayor Bill de Blasio to the Mamdani administration – which will likely be essential. Universal baby care was amongst Mamdani’s key platform factors on the marketing campaign path, and is one Gov. Kathy Hochul is especially eager on collaborating on. Liss, who had reportedly been advising the Mamdani marketing campaign on baby care, will likely be targeted on “building a high-quality, accessible early childhood education system for all New York families,” in accordance with a launch from the transition crew. It’s not instantly clear who Liss will report back to, however Amber Cartwright, govt director of the Adams administration’s equal Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, reported to Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Ana Almanzar. Liss’ appointment was introduced on Dec. 31, 2025.

Mamdani is tapping a brand new chief accountable for constructing and sustaining New York City’s public faculties. The mayor named Celeste Ramirez president of the School Construction Authority, a job she’ll stroll into with loads of work forward – together with constructing capability at faculties to satisfy class measurement mandates. Ramirez beforehand labored for the SCA in group relations and actual property roles, and later as a guide. Mamdani named Ramirez to the place on June 12, 2026.

On Jan. 1, 2026, Mamdani “revitalized” the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and put in longtime housing advocate Cea Weaver as its director. Weaver has been a detailed adviser to Mamdani on housing points, and is as revered within the advocacy group as she is feared and disliked in the true property world. She joins Mamdani’s administration after main the advocacy organizations Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc. She was a frontrunner in passing New York’s landmark 2019 tenant safety legal guidelines.

Eric Adams had his Rat Czar. And now Zohran Mamdani has his World Cup czar. Mamdani selected Maya Handa, his marketing campaign supervisor throughout the common election and an alum of Zellnor Myrie’s major marketing campaign, Run for Something and the Working Families Party, for the place that he has tasked with guaranteeing all the metropolis advantages from the financial exercise across the 2026 World Cup in New York City. Handa is described as a lifelong soccer fan and participant. Her appointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

Mamdani has appointed Delia Awusi because the mom-and-pop Czar, a brand new position added that delivers on his marketing campaign promise of making a small enterprise advocate. Awusi will work with metropolis companies together with the Department of Small Business Services to cut back pink tape small enterprise house owners face with metropolis processes like permits and provides house owners a voice inside City Hall. Awusi is coming into this position with over a decade of expertise, and prior work on the Business Outreach Center Network, a small enterprise improvement group, the place she served as their Women’s Business Center director. Mamdani introduced this appointment on April 7, 2026.

Eric Adams could also be gone, however a lifelong vegan is in a seat of energy at City Hall as soon as once more. Mamdani named Siddhartha Sanchez govt director of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, taking up for Kate MacKenzie, who has served within the place since 2019. The workplace works to increase entry to wholesome meals throughout the town, and Sanchez may also serve on the mayor’s Grocery Store Task Force. He beforehand ran the Bronx River Alliance, the place his work included stewarding the Bronx River Foodway. Sanchez was named on June 12, 2026.

After becoming a member of the Mamdani marketing campaign to function coverage director again in September, Louise Yeung is about to be the Mamdani administration’s chief local weather officer. It’s a title she will likely be effectively accustomed to – albeit on a barely smaller scale, having been former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander’s local weather chief. Before that, she labored as director of resiliency on the metropolis Department of Transportation throughout the de Blasio administration and was vice chairman of power on the New York City Economic Development Corp. In her new position, Yeung will oversee the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. Though beneath Adams, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala was additionally the administration’s chief local weather officer, Yeung won’t observe swimsuit and maintain each roles. According to transition crew spokesperson Dora Pekec, the Mamdani administration may have a separate DEP commissioner.

Mamdani is bringing within the massive weapons – which on the earth of expertise, means a part-inventor of GIFs. Lisa Gelobter, the previous chief digital service officer on the U.S. Department of Education beneath President Barack Obama, will lead the Office of Technology and Innovation and function chief expertise officer. Former Mayor Eric Adams created the workplace with the intention of streamlining the town’s disparate expertise and IT-related efforts, however opinions of that work have been combined. Where Gelobter will take it stays to be seen. Mamdani introduced her appointment on Feb. 10, 2026.

Dr. Jason Graham is one other a type of Adams administration members who’re conserving their jobs in 2026. Graham has served as the town’s chief medical expert since 2022. His appointment was the fruits of a few years within the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Before serving in his present position in an performing capability for 5 months, Graham was first deputy chief medical expert for the higher a part of a decade. He has labored on the OCME since 2006. In current years, he has developed a deal with the examination of overdose deaths. Graham was appointed on Dec. 29, 2025.

Eric Adams created many roles as New York City mayor. And whereas it’s not clear if Mamdani intends to maintain all of them, he did reappoint Michael Garner, who in 2023 grew to become the town’s first citywide chief enterprise variety officer. Prior to that, Garner had been the chief variety and inclusion officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for 14 years. He has additionally served in quite a few management and advisory roles for varied enterprise and diversity-related organizations. Mamdani introduced he’d hold Garner on Dec. 29, 2025.

Mir Bashar is virtually a City Hall staple at this level, having served there in some monetary capability since Rudy Giuliani was mayor. He’ll keep on board with the Mamdani administration, and was reappointed chief administrative officer on Dec. 29, 2025. Before his present position, Bashar was then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s senior price range director. 

One of Mamdani’s prime marketing campaign lieutenants will spearhead the new-ish Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice, which was launched in 2023 following a voter referendum. Afua Atta-Mensah beforehand served as political director of Mamdani’s marketing campaign after which transition. Before that she served as govt director of the racial and financial justice nonprofit Community Voices Heard. Atta-Mensah has her work lower out for her, with Mamdani’s dedication to launch a preliminary racial fairness plan throughout the first 100 days. The appointment was introduced on Jan. 15, as Mamdani confronted criticism about racial illustration within his administration.

Clarke will lead the company investigating and implementing human rights regulation within the metropolis — although she emphasised in her Jan. 7 appointment announcement that she’d prioritize proactive training and compliance. Clarke is coming from Legal Services NYC, the place she was chief of litigation and advocacy and labored on discrimination lawsuits towards the NYPD and NYCHA. She beforehand labored as a workers lawyer at Planned Parenthood, difficult state legal guidelines proscribing abortion.

Kim L. Yu will formally stay in her place overseeing the town’s huge contracting and procurement regime. The Mayor’s Office of Contract Services has been on a years-long mission to make procurement extra environment friendly, equitable and, it says, clear. Yu was first deputy director within the workplace earlier than being appointed to guide it in April 2025. Her reappointment was introduced on Jan. 27, 2026.

It’s no secret that New York City works with a whole bunch of native nonprofits. To function his liaison to those many organizations as they perform their essential work, Mamdani tapped Annie Minguez to direct the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services on June 25, 2026. She joins the administration with a raft of private expertise working at nonprofits, together with most just lately as vice chairman of presidency and group relations at youth companies group Good Shepherd Services.

On Jan. 2, Mamdani introduced that his election lawyer Ali Najmi would lead the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, with a plan to interact a higher spectrum of the town’s authorized group whereas choosing judges. A fellow resident of Queens, Najmi is a longtime pal and to Mamdani, and a detailed adviser.

Mamdani tapped Phylisa Wisdom, the chief director of the progressive Jewish advocacy group New York Jewish Agenda, to guide his Office to Combat Antisemitism. The workplace was solely just lately created by former Mayor Eric Adams. Despite Mamdani repealing two govt orders referring to defining antisemitism and boycotting Israel, Mamdani is conserving the workplace in place however changing its founding director, Moshe Davis, with Wisdom, who’s extra intently aligned with criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza. The appointment was first reported by Forward and confirmed in a press launch from City Hall on Feb. 4, 2026.

Mamdani tapped Taylor Brown, an assistant state lawyer common within the workplace’s Civil Rights Bureau, to guide a brand new Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs at City Hall. Brown, who additionally beforehand served as a workers lawyer on the American Civil Liberties Union, would be the first out trans individual to guide a metropolis workplace, in accordance with the mayor’s workplace. The appointment comes amid threats to LGBTQIA+ rights and companies across the nation, together with ones with trickle down effects domestically. Mamdani introduced the appointment on March 13, 2026.

It’s now clear that the town won’t meet its 2027 deadline to shut the Rikers Island jail advanced and change it with 4 new borough-based jails nearer to courthouses. But to display dedication to the plan, if not the date, Mamdani created a brand new place: the shut Rikers czar. He named Dana Kaplan, who was beforehand a senior adviser to the Independent Rikers Commission, the panel that outlined the most recent plan to shut the jail advanced. She additionally served within the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice within the de Blasio administration. Mamdani appointed Kaplan on April 28.