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NEW YORK CITY’S political structure is in transition. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is poised to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio after emerging victorious from a crowded Democratic primary this summer. New York City Council Member Brad Lander scored an upset in the city comptroller primary, while Alvin Bragg notched a trailblazing win in the Manhattan district attorney’s race. And several new borough presidents are set to be elected – City Council members Mark Levine in Manhattan and Vanessa Gibson in the Bronx and potentially former Rep. Vito Fossella on Staten Island.

A number of fresh faces emerged during the past election cycle too. In the New York City Council, for example, more than two-thirds of the legislative body will be new come 2022, and they’ll also elect the next council speaker. Some younger New Yorkers made a mark assisting candidates this cycle, while others have moved up the ranks and made waves in positions as government appointees, advocates, attorneys, business executives, consultants, journalists and labor leaders. City & State’s New York City 40 Under 40 list highlights some of the most accomplished rising stars among them – all of them under the age of 40.

We’re pleased to introduce City & State’s 2021 New York City 40 Under 40 Rising Stars.

SHAUN ABREU

New York City Council Nominee When Shaun Abreu was 9 years old, his family was evicted from their home in Washington Heights. Now, at age 30, he’s come full circle as a tenants rights attorney with the New York Legal Assistance Group, where he fights to keep families in their homes. Come November, Abreu, the Democratic nominee for New York City Council District 7, hopes to continue serving his community as its newly elected council member.

“My keen understanding of how government can work for people – and how it can also not work for people – I think is what makes me a very uniquely qualified public servant,” Abreu says.

Abreu, who is the son of Dominican immigrants, was born and raised in District 7 and even attended college in the area at Columbia University. Although he left the city to attend Tulane Law School, Abreu says he always knew he would return to his community.

Abreu has also served as a member of his local community board and on the campaigns of lawmakers like Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

Abreu credits his close ties to the district as one of the main reasons he won his June primary, including the fact that he brought together over 100 building captains – a diverse group made up of his former classmates, college professors, tenants he’s represented in housing court, community leaders and many others – to campaign for him in their apartment complexes.

“We spoke to folks in their language, literally and metaphorically,” Abreu says. “They saw a kid who went from being evicted to becoming a tenant lawyer, someone who will now be their champion on issues they are now facing.” – Sahalie Donaldson

CHARLIE AIDINOFF

Associate Vice President, Corporate and Legislation KASIRER

During Charlie Aidinoff’s time at Kasirer, he has been especially proud of his work advising an organization called ROAR, which stands for Restaurants Organizing, Advocating & Rebuilding. The group, which was founded during the coronavirus pandemic to advocate on behalf of financially struggling restaurants and their workers, began to work with the lobbying firm in April of last year.

“Working on behalf of a group of people who are really fighting for an industry that was having some really tough times was particularly interesting and satisfying,” he says.

Aidinoff brought extensive experience in New York City government with him to Kasirer. He started his career when he joined Bill de Blasio’s 2013 successful mayoral campaign. He served as a legislative representative in the Mayor’s Office of City Legislative Affairs, coordinating with the City Council and city agencies on public policy. In that role, he had a hand in shaping numerous pieces of legislation, including expanding access to menstrual hygiene products in schools and prisons, and repealing New York City’s Cabaret Law, an archaic and obscure law that limited dancing in bars. From there, Aidinoff headed to the New York City Mayor’s Office of ThriveNYC – now known as the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health – as its legislative and intergovernmental affairs manager.

At Kasirer, Aidinoff works with a vast range of clients as a part of the firm’s corporate and legislation team. “I certainly pride myself on my ability to help these people understand who’s who in government and what you need to get things done.” – Kay Dervishi

KEYLA ANTIGUA

Senior Vice President for Government and Community Affairs BOLTON-ST. JOHNS

Keyla Antigua started her career involved in grassroots advocacy, speaking with and educating people in underserved communities who were directly affected by policy changes. “While I love that work of connecting directly with particular folks, I knew that trying to change and influence policy was probably going to be a larger-scale impact” on those communities, she says.

That interest prompted her to take on policy initiatives at Children’s Aid, a 168-year-old child welfare nonprofit in New York City. During her time at Children’s Aid, Antigua advocated for legislation on numerous issues affecting youth and families. This included working with a coalition of organizations to increase access to summer jobs for New York City youth and pushing the state to offer more support to foster children who are leaving home and entering college.

At the government relations firm Bolton-St. Johns, Antigua channels her efforts into diversifying the scope of policy and legislation she explores along with various clients.

“It really does allow me to step out of my comfort zone and become an expert in other areas,” she says, explaining how she handles a client list that ranges from the nonprofit sector to the tech industry.

Antigua is particularly proud of the work that she has done in the criminal justice reform space, such as securing funding for a client to provide incarcerated people with access to a social worker as they prepare for the parole review process. – K.D.

ANDREA BOWEN

Principal BOWEN PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONSULTING

Andrea Bowen launched her career as a researcher in the organizing department at the Iron Workers Union in Washington, D.C., collecting information that helped people organize and bring to light workers’ rights violations. At the same time, she also began to work with a volunteer transgender activist organization and advocated for the Council of the District of Columbia to pass a bill that would reduce barriers for transgender people seeking to change their names.

The bill passed unanimously – and Bowen was hooked.

She then went to New York City, working on budget advocacy with United Neighborhood Houses and continued her LGBTQ activism, helping to create NYC Unity Works, a city workforce development program designed to help LGBTQ youth.

“Getting Unity Works done was huge for me,” she says, adding that it is “the most robust workforce program that I know of for LGBTQ folks in the country, and it survived the challenge of the city’s pandemic finances.” Bowen even worked with a group in Washington, D.C., to enact a similar variation on the program there.

As a public affairs consultant for the past four years, Bowen has advised and supported clients such as worker cooperatives and the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. Whether it’s supporting advocates for LGBTQ people or labor rights, Bowen says, “Helping take part in that change means the world to me.” – K.D.

RAMÓN CABRAL

State Democratic Committee Member

Navigating the world of government has been vital to Ramón Cabral ever since he was a kid helping out his dad’s cab company by gleaning the language of city agencies and attending community board meetings. His interest in politics intensified during his first internship working for an Assembly member in the Bronx while studying at Fordham University. A subsequent internship for former Rep. José E. Serrano helped him see the direct impact of policy on his community, as he helped draft bills and attended meetings with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. “It was about being exposed to the inner workings of Congress,” Cabral recalls, “and making sure that folks get money to address issues that affect your community, like we did when we gave funding to the FBI to address shootings a few years ago, and how that would then impact the Bronx.”

Cabral worked his way up in Serrano’s Bronx office, and his involvement with the Bronx Young Democrats led to him running for district leader in 2018. While he lost that race, his 2020 win in a state Democratic Committee member race was a testament to his determination.

In that role, Cabral is prioritizing his community by focusing on public safety and youth education and programs. He’s also working to grow his campaign consulting company. “A young person of color in the Bronx can be not necessarily at the table right now but helping folks who are at the table,” he explains, adding that his job is to help people make decisions that are going to influence their community.

JESSICA CARRANO

Vice President

RED HORSE STRATEGIES

Jessica Carrano is comfortable behind the scenes, from working in restaurants to engineering progressive victories.

The Brooklyn native grew up along the Jersey shore thanks to her father’s service in the U.S. Coast Guard, an experience she calls a “socialized experiment.”

“People made the same salary, shopped in the same places, and the kids all go to the same schools,” Carrano recalls. “Although, we had really nice public schools due to the taxes from people who had second homes there.”

She waited tables throughout high school and at New York University, developing the interpersonal skills to go on to canvass for candidates with the Working Families Party. “I was really good at it,” she says. “The service industry helps you become good at talking to strangers and understand what people want.”

Carrano stayed with the far-left third party for almost seven years and became its statewide political director. In 2015, Carrano left for Metropolitan Public Strategies to help Todd Kaminsky win a key state Senate seat on Long Island. A year later, she joined Red Horse Strategies, where she has cultivated candidates from historically underrepresented communities.

She was recently on the team that helped Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams win the Democratic mayoral nomination. She noted that Adams sought her opinions in meetings.

“When you’re a woman in a lot of these rooms, you’re really on your own sometimes,” Carrano says. “That desire to listen to everybody in the room made me excited to work on the campaign and think about what kind of leader he could be.” – Aaron Short

ARIANA COLLADO

Executive Director

BRONX DEMOCRATIC PARTY

The Bronx Democratic Party is becoming younger and featuring more women, thanks in part to Ariana Collado.

Collado, whose family moved from the Dominican Republic when she was 2 years old, grew up in Mott Haven, Westchester Square and Wakefield and attended Aquinas High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Belmont. “We had very strict schedules,” Collado says. “There was no such thing as skipping class. It allowed me to focus on school, build relationships and get a good education.”

After attending Iona College and Lehman College, Collado got odd jobs, including one selling jeans in SoHo, before becoming a scheduler to then-City Council Member Andrew Cohen. She worked her way up to chief of staff for Cohen and had the Bronx politician’s backing when she helped organize a unionization drive.

“I was blessed to have an amazing council member who supported any moves and decisions we made,” Collado says. “That wasn’t the case for a lot of staffers at City Hall.”

After state Sen. Jamaal Bailey was elected to lead the Bronx Democratic County Committee last year, he brought Collado aboard to run its operations and recruit candidates. Now, women are set to make up a majority of the borough’s City Council delegation. Collado, who has simultaneously attended CUNY School of Law, has been honing her own voice too.

“Most of the spaces I’ve been in at City Council or in different positions of power have been mostly men, and I’m making sure my opinions are heard,” she says. – A.S.

ARIES DELA CRUZ

Press Secretary MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT GALE BREWER

In 2007, then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at a Columbia University forum and said there were no gays in his country.

Aries Dela Cruz, a prominent LGBTQ student leader at Columbia, noticed his phone started to blow up.

“Being on Columbia’s campus, you’re used to journalists being around and using students as sources,” Dela Cruz says. “We were in the news quite a lot for a number of causes.”

Dela Cruz, whose family emigrated from the Philippines when he was only 7, didn’t get involved in politics until 2016, when he co-founded the Filipino American Democratic Club of New York. The group connected immigrants from the Philippines to their local government officials.

When Donald Trump won the presidency, Dela Cruz was devastated, and he sought to become more involved in city government. He started working for Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, which led to stints with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and boosting 2020 census turnout.

Dela Cruz rejoined Brewer’s office early last year as the pandemic unfolded. “There wasn’t a whole lot of training because we were in an emergency, but I knew the staff and I had their respect,” Dela Cruz says. “I could anticipate what the governor’s office wanted even before they asked.”

Dela Cruz credits Brewer for his work ethic and learning to overprepare. “Gale showed me you should have high standards and, if you have information, it’s important to share it – no matter how bad it might look,” Dela Cruz says. “Being honest with people is appreciated.” – A.S.

Director, Health Equity and Policy Analysis GREATER NEW YORK HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Alejandra Diaz-Houston’s position at the Greater New York Hospital Association has two major components: to analyze state and federal proposals or directives that affect health equity initiatives at hospitals; and to give technical assistance to hospitals implementing efforts to improve health equity, such as improved demographic data collection for patients or better language access for people with limited English proficiency.

“The concept of equity is inherently important to every policy discussion and in any and every implementation plan or program,” she says. It has taken on particular significance for Diaz-Houston during the coronavirus pandemic, as she has dedicated significant time to guiding and supporting hospitals.

“It’s making all of the information that’s available, digestible, so that people can actually put it into action,” she says about her work.

Her interest in health policy led her to the governor’s office, where she served as an Empire State fellow working under the state’s deputy secretary for health. She then went to the state Department of Health, working at the Center for Health Care Policy and Resource Development. While there, DiazHouston oversaw the Population Health Improvement Program, a statewide initiative to advance population health and reduce disparities in health care.

Diaz-Houston also chairs the transportation committee of Queens Community Board 6, which spans Forest Hills and Rego Park. “It’s really been fulfilling to volunteer in an environment where you’re focused on how we can make our community better,” she says. “And it drives some really good, productive conversations.” – K.D.

BRIAN FRITSCH

Campaign Manager, Public for Penn and Build Gateway Now REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION

The Gateway Program might be the most complex infrastructure project anywhere in the country, but the proposed commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River doesn’t faze Brian Fritsch.

The Wisconsin native and Grinnell College graduate has been enmeshed with the inner workings of New York state politics since 2009, when he coordinated fieldwork for Scott Murphy’s successful congressional campaign. Campaign tours with prominent Queens politicians Jimmy Van Bramer and Melinda Katz followed, but it wasn’t until Fritsch helped the New York City Department of Education roll out Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal pre-K program that he fully appreciated the power that government has to make people’s lives better – as long as the gears of bureaucracy shifted correctly.

“It was a tricky process to get everything done in a timely fashion,” Fritsch says. “There were barriers the bureaucracy had up that came down because people believed it was something worth doing – and that was awesome to see.”

Fritsch’s work on the high-profile prekindergarten rollout led to stints with High Achievement New York, where he worked with parents and educators on the state’s educational standards, and the Regional Plan Association, where he handled a campaign to ensure the long-delayed tunnel will get built in our lifetimes.

“(Gateway) has an impact on climate change, public health and the economy of the region,” Fritsch says. “My hope is you know it’s the most critical piece of infrastructure in the entire nation – and building it is essential.” – A.S.

JEFF FURTICELLA

Metro Photo Editor

THE NEW YORK TIMES

The first time Jeff Furticella’s father was excited about his son’s work was when he got to shoot a Chicago Bears game for The Times of Northwest Indiana.

A photographer for the paper gave a talk at Furticella’s high school, and Furticella asked to shadow him for assignments. Soon, he was shooting high school basketball games and other events while he was at Ball State University, which later led to the NFL assignment.

But he didn’t realize photo editing could become a career until he joined The Associated Press’ sports photo desk in 2011, which he likened to journalism graduate school.

“You learn every scenario that comes up,” Furticella says. “You’re working with tons of photographers and reporters, you’re thrown everything, and you’re always on deadline.”

Two years later, Furticella landed at The New York Times’ sports desk before joining Metro in 2017. In his assignments, he sought to understand beats to ensure the visuals and writing complement each other while pushing photographers to advance the story.

“Photographers have the luxury of time to build relationships with people,” Furticella says. “It’s not uncommon for a photographer to bring back reporting that changes the direction of a story or surface something we haven’t previously considered.”

The coronavirus pandemic limited that access, but Furticella’s team tried to “capture the inherent fear” of life in the city then.

“You think of how the city cleared out and the eerie quiet of that place,” he says. “We wanted to show how this place is evolving right before our eyes.” – A.S.

CRISTINA GARCIA

Assistant Director

BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION INSTITUTE

Cristina Garcia developed a passion for sustainability while studying environmental engineering at The City College of New York. That experience made it particularly meaningful when, while at the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Climate and Sustainability, she developed a new internship program designed specifically for students at local public colleges to access careers in sustainability.

“Having been able to be a part of having a direct impact on those students, I think, is something that I’m just proud of because it touches really close to home,” she says. “I was one of those students. I am a New Yorker, I am first-generation and I am Latina.”

Her experience in city government is particularly relevant to her work at the Building Electrification Institute. As an assistant director at the organization, Garcia helps cities across the country navigate labor and workforce development challenges associated with transitioning away from using fossil fuels in buildings’ systems.

Her interest in equitable workforce development goes beyond her day job: Garcia launched Latinxs in Sustainability in 2017, which offers events and opportunities for networking and mentorships to Latino professionals working in sustainability.

“A lot of minority New Yorkers that studied environmental engineering ... Where are they now? ... What’s happening that there’s clearly such a gap between people who pursue these degrees and then the people that make it in the rooms?” she asks. “This group is trying to elevate those stories and narratives and to raise awareness about what career opportunities look like in sustainability.” – K.D.

ELLEN GUSTAFSON

Assistant Director

GREENBERG TRAURIG

Ellen Gustafson’s interest in politics was sparked while she was in high school. Before she went off to college, she decided to work on Daniel Garodnick’s first campaign for New York City Council.

“What was supposed to be a couple of hours to fill my time turned into a passion,” she says. After going through law school, she landed a position working in Garodnick’s office. She initially planned on a short-term stay while figuring out whether she wanted to pursue traditional legal work.

“I loved what I was doing,” she says. “I loved the community work, being involved in rezonings and the budget, and so I wound up staying for his entire last term.” While working in the City Council, she played a key role in shaping the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project and the East Midtown rezoning.

Since joining Greenberg Traurig in 2019, Gustafson has maintained a focus on handling budgetary and legislative matters for clients before the City Council. One of her favorite aspects of her job is working with nonprofit clients that provide needed social services to New Yorkers.

“What I liked about being at the City Council and what I like about being at Greenberg is no two days are the same,” she says.

When she’s not lobbying on behalf of her clients, Gustafson enjoys running, having completed 21 marathons to date. – K.D.

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL NOMINEE

Shahana Hanif, a community organizer and daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, made history when she was elected as the Democratic nominee for New York City Council District 39. Not only will she be the first Muslim woman to be elected to the legislative body, but she will also be the first woman of color to represent her Brooklyn district.

“I’ve been reflecting a lot about how if somebody had told me 20 years ago when I was 10 – 9/11 had just taken place – that I would one day become an elected official or that a Muslim person would be in office in just two decades’ time, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Hanif says.

In addition to her years as a tenant organizer, disability rights activist and advocate against domestic violence, Hanif most recently served as the director of organizing and community engagement in Council Member Brad Lander’s office. The experience gave her the opportunity to lead grassroots initiatives where her community could have some say in how the city invested in the district.

In addition to her hopes of transforming language access in the city, advancing gender equality and addressing labor justice issues, Hanif was diagnosed with lupus when she was 17, and she plans to continue using a disability justice framework as a member of City Council.

“My talking points are not just about my community. It’s about me too as an incoming council member who is living right now with invisible disabilities ... really recognizing what access looks like and what accommodations look like in our workplace,” Hanif says. “I know I’m bringing my full self into this work and our communities.” – S.D.

MONIKA HANSEN

State Director

U.S. SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND

Monika Hansen has worked for several powerful female politicians in New York – and waded through a lot of garbage along the way.

A Polish immigrant and selfproclaimed “trash nerd,” Hansen attended Hunter College High School and George Washington University, working at an immigration law firm in her free time. Instead of becoming an immigration lawyer, she joined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as a field organizer.

After Clinton’s devastating loss, Hansen dove into her volunteer work at Red Hook Community Farm. “I thought about what was the most physical job I could do and decided on composting,” she says. “It seemed I could physically make the world a better place during a dark time.”

A friend’s suggestion that she meet city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia led to a position as a special assistant at the Department of Sanitation, where she wound up as deputy chief of staff. During the coronavirus pandemic, Hansen helped build an emergency food program that delivered a million meals a day.

A year ago, Garcia asked Hansen to run her mayoral campaign. Hansen capitalized on the first-time candidate’s reputation as an effective manager to nearly beat Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

Hansen, who took a position as state director to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand post-primary, wishes she had more time to introduce Garcia to voters. “If we started the campaign earlier, we would have had more time to build relationships and a broader base,” she says. “The fact that (Adams) won by only 7,000 votes speaks to Kathryn’s message.” – A.S.

Director of Government Affairs, New York City ALTICE USA

For Eric Henry, there is little daylight between his work in the public and private sectors.

“At the end of the day, I’ve always had a career in customer service, whether it’s been a City Council office or agency at the mayor’s office,” he says. In the private sector, he says that it is just the same.

Henry has been with telecommunications company Altice for the past year. As director of government affairs in New York City, he plays a key part in managing Atlice’s franchise agreements with the city and supports the company’s work with expanding Wi-Fi access in homeless shelters in the area. Henry also coordinates with elected officials’ offices and various city agencies to field and expedite complaints from customers in the Bronx and Brooklyn, where the company operates.

Before heading to Altice, Henry worked as general counsel for the New York City Mayor’s Office of City Legislative Affairs. He also has served as general counsel and director of intergovernmental affairs at the New York City Department of Veterans’ Services, where he shaped many resources and benefits set aside for veterans early on in the agency’s creation.

Henry volunteers his time as a board member at the New York Botanical Garden, where he was director of government relations from 2014 to 2016. He is also a member of New York City’s Panel for Educational Policy, which approves the city school system’s policy decisions.

– K.D.

PORTIA HENRY

Program Manager, Gateway Program AMTRAK

Even as Portia Henry manages some of the region’s most complex infrastructure projects, she still harkens back to her experiences working in her grandfather’s gas station in Hampton, Virginia.

Henry was always interested in transportation, but her temporary gas station job helped her understand its role in connecting people to economic opportunities.

“I knew the value of minorities in transportation and the freedom that transportation allows,” Henry says. “That stayed with me internally as I learned about community development.”

Henry began that learning process early when, as a teenager, she served on the Hampton Youth Commission and distributed $40,000 to youth programs as its appropriations committee head.

After graduating from the University of Virginia and working for a nonprofit in Danville, Virginia, Henry attended graduate school for city planning at Rutgers and scored a coveted internship with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She was then accepted into the agency’s leadership fellows program, where she rotated between three departments, including a stint in its executive offices with former Chair John Degnan.

The fellowship led to her managing the redevelopment of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, where she oversaw pre-construction activities and environmental assessments. Now she’s bringing her passion for capital programs and resilience to tackle Gateway, another multiyear infrastructure project at Amtrak that affects millions of commuters.

“Infrastructure is infrastructure, but this is a brand-new challenge and definitely a step up in the world of capital programs,” Henry says.

– A.S.

Director of Faith-Based Outreach

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Clement James was raised in the Baptist and Pentecostal tradition, but he connects with people from other backgrounds through the shared experience of being a first-generation New Yorker.

“I come from a place of understanding what it’s like to move to New York and pursue the American dream,” James says. “So many faith leaders call me their son or their brother.”

James, whose father emigrated from Jamaica, is fond of pointing out that he grew up in Kingston – New York’s first capital. After attending Sullivan County Community College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he worked at K2 Intelligence before joining thenPresident Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign as a field organizer in Virginia.

“My grandmother was a big supporter but passed away in July 2012,” James says. “As a commitment to her, I wanted to go to where she was born to work on his campaign.”

After the election, James worked for the city Department of Parks and Recreation and at City Hall, where he was New York City first lady Chirlane McCray’s assistant. He also helped recruit more firefighters of color.

In the fall of 2018, he joined the governor’s office as the top liaison to the state’s faith leaders. That role put him in the middle of a crucial vaccination drive and efforts to get personal protective equipment, face masks and sanitizers to churches throughout the state.

“There’s no politics involved in providing services for people,” James says. “There’s nothing more rewarding than picking up the phone and helping someone with an issue they need.” – A.S.

JONELLE JOHNSON

Manager of Government and Community Strategy CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS

Jonelle Johnson has had many notable moments in her time at Charter Communications, but she says that what she enjoys most about her job at the telecommunications and media company is seeing the results of its contributions and support across New York City.

“Anytime I’ve been to an event where we get to interact with the people that we’re helping in some way, it just brings me so much pride,” she says. “Because it puts a face to the money; it puts a face to the equipment.”

As manager of government and community strategy at Charter Communications, Johnson runs the company’s community engagement efforts in New York City, including partnerships with local organizations, corporate sponsorships and outreach with the broader community, including coronavirus pandemicera efforts such as donations to the Lower Eastside Girls Club and helping to launch educational events on the city’s new system of rankedchoice voting.

Johnson’s current position allows her to combine the skills she has gained from different roles that she has held during her career. Her first job out of college involved conducting research on policy and legislation. She also spent time working in development and fundraising for the child welfare nonprofit Rising Ground, where she assisted in the planning of galas, backpack drives and other events. At Charter, she’s now working from the opposite side while seeking the same results.

“It’s funny how it all ended up intersecting and bringing me to this point,” she says. – K.D