St. Francis College welcomes Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the
Working Families Party and a panel of New York City political writers
and analysts to talk about Gotham’s Left Turn: New York Under Mayor De Blasio & the New York City Council on Wednesday, March 13 beginning at 6:30pm in the College’s Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education.
The event, which will be moderated by St. Francis
Scholar-in-Residence Fred Siegel also features Josh Greenman (Daily
News), Michael Powell (New York Times), Nicole Gelinas (Manhattan
Institute), and Azi Paybarah (Capital New York).
Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party
Dan Cantor, the executive director of the Working Families Party, who
along with Bill De Blasio founded the party in 1998. The party’s rapid
rise as reflected in the 2013 election has made it central to the city’s
future. All three city-wide elected offices, Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller are held by friends of the WFP. The party also enjoys the support of 40 percent the City Council.
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Josh Greenman, Editorial Page Editor, The New York Daily News
Josh Greenman is the opinion editor and editorial writer at the New York Daily News. Prior
to that he was the communications director of the Teaching Commission
and a speechwriter for Senator Lieberman and Mayor Giuliani.
Michael Powell, New York Times Columnist
Michael Powell, the author of the Gotham Column for the NY Times, is a former reporter for theWashington Post and Newsday. He is also a former cabbie and tenant organizer.
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Nicole Gelinas, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. She writes often for local publications, including the New York Post, on urban economics, infrastructure, and finance. Gelinas is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and author of After the Fall, a 2009 book on the financial crisis.
Azi Paybarah, Capital New York Columnist
Azi Paybarah is a senior writer at Capital New York. He reported about politics for WNYC public radio, the New York Observer, New York Sun and New York Press. In May, The Fix,Washington Post’s politics
blog named him as one of New York’s best state-based political
reporters. He is a native New Yorker and lives in Manhattan.
About Fred Siegel
In addition to his work at St. Francis College, Fred Siegel is also a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life,
has been instrumental in bringing a number of timely and provocative
events to the College. Past forums hosted by St. Francis include The Tension Between Catholic Schools & Charter Schools, Freedom Summer Revisted, Can You be Both a Business Success and Ethically Noble? and Lincoln, Grant and the Civil War. His next book, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, is scheduled to hit bookstore in January.
