{"id":39366,"date":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=39366"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","slug":"mayor-mamdani-appoints-afua-atta-mensah-as-chief-equity-officer-and-commissioner-of-the-mayors-office-of-equity-racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/39366","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani appoints Afua Atta-Mensah as Chief Equity Officer and Commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Equity & Racial Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of nationally recognized organizer and racial justice strategist Afua Atta-Mensah as Chief Equity Officer and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice (MOERJ).<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this role, Atta-Mensah will coordinate the administration\u2019s work advancing racial equity across City agencies, including creating and publishing the Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan within the administration\u2019s first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n

This commitment to the Racial Equity Plan, which the Adams administration\u00a0failed to\u00a0publish on schedule, marks a new era in New York City\u2019s pursuit of racial justice under the Mamdani administration.<\/p>\n

Atta-Mensah has previously held roles including Chief of Programs at Community Change, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, and Director of Litigation and Policy at the Urban Justice Center.<\/p>\n

In these positions and others across New York and internationally, she has fought to build social power for working people, including defending racial justice initiatives and fair and\u00a0equitable\u00a0housing.<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani also committed to create and publish the Preliminary Racial Equity Plan within the administration\u2019s first 100 days in office. New Yorkers will then be able to comment on the Preliminary Plan before the Final Plan is published later this year.<\/p>\n

New York City voters supported the creation of a Racial Equity Plan by a wide margin in 2022, but the\u00a0previous\u00a0administration did not meet the timeline\u00a0established\u00a0in the City Charter to release it. In prioritizing the publication of the Racial Equity Plan, the Mamdani administration is reiterating its commitment to a more\u00a0equitable\u00a0and just New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfua Atta-Mensah has dedicated her career to serving the New Yorkers who are so often forgotten in the halls of power. There is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat starts with making good on the promise of a Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan within our first 100 days in office, and it will continue as our administration focuses on equity and racial justice throughout its work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored by this appointment, and ready to seek citywide justice and accountability on behalf of all New Yorkers,\u201d said\u00a0Afua Atta-Mensah, NYC Chief Equity Officer & Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Mayor has made clear, this administration is committed to doing\u00a0big things \u2014 and to doing them boldly. I look forward to partnering with community leaders and working alongside the teams at MOERJ and the Commission on Racial Equity to develop and implement a comprehensive, citywide Racial Equity Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no economic justice without racial justice. I am thrilled to get to work with Afua Atta-Mensah to make this more than just a statement of principle and to celebrate Black excellence and racial equity for\u00a0all of\u00a0the beautiful communities who call NYC home,\u201d said\u00a0<\/strong>Julie Su, Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of nationally recognized organizer and racial justice strategist Afua Atta-Mensah as Chief Equity Officer and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice (MOERJ). In this role, Atta-Mensah will coordinate the administration\u2019s work advancing racial equity across City agencies, including creating and publishing the Preliminary Citywide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39368,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions\/39368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}