Congratulations

kerri jewKerri Jew, former Deputy Commissioner at the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, effective January 4, 2016. Ms. Jew oversees major components of NYCHA’s organizational redesign, labor relations, and agency-wide process improvements.

While Deputy Commissioner at SBS, Ms. Jew oversaw the City’s Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Program, which promotes equity in City contracting opportunities and provides services to companies interested in doing business with government. Ms. Jew also served at SBS as Deputy General Counsel.

Additionally, Ms. Jew served as Executive Director of New York State’s M/WBE Program at Empire State Department, after first serving as the Corporation’s Compliance Officer.

Ms. Jew entered City service as a federal civil rights litigator with the NYC Department of Law and graduated with distinction from Emory University School of Law after earning a B.A. degree from Cornell University.