Keynote Speaker
Honorable Dr. Dorcey Applyrs
Mayor, City of Albany

Join us as we examine today’s public service challenges, from workforce burnout, funding cuts and AI disruption to DEI backlash and growing polarization while exploring authentic and resilient leadership, community-driven solutions and the policy issues shaping our future. Gather with leaders committed to acting with the courage, clarity and community power needed to navigate turmoil and chaos and drive sustainable, equitable change.
 

Hosted by: The Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy. Donate to the Center.

Free and open to the public.
 

Speakers

• Hon. Barbara Guinn, Commissioner, NYS Office for Temporary & Disability Assistance
• Laura Gustin, President & CEO, TogetherNow
• Hon. DaMia Harris-Madden, Commissioner, NYS Office of Children and Family Services
• Daquetta P. Jones-Johnson, CEO, Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region
• Angelica Kang, Chief Diversity Officer & Associate Counsel, NYS Office of General Services
• Tia Brown McNair, Alliance for Higher Education
• Honorable Denise Miranda, Commissioner, NYS Division of Human Rights
• Karen Carpenter Palumbo, President & CEO, Vanderheyden; CWGCS Board President

Moderators

• Kerri Neifeld, Deputy Director of State Operations, NYS Executive Chamber
• Shakera Tems, Senior Policy Advisor, NYS Executive Chamber

Special Remarks

• Lucy Lang, New York State Inspector General
• Senator Patricia Fahy, New York State Senate

Concluding Remarks

• Julie Novkov, Dean, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

Conference Sponsors: Canon Kay Hotaling & Ruth Walters