Citizens Committee for New York City started in 1975 with an ad in The New York Times looking for”10,000 ‘greedy and heartless’ New Yorkers to work for 5 years. For free.” Since then, CitizensNYC has brought people together to drive change in neighborhoods across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
Dr. Rahsaan Harris walks us through his first year of leadership at CitizensNYC as its first Black CEO. He shares with us how CitizensNYC is supporting communities and democratizing access to philanthropy through microgrants. In this conversation with Jonathan Lambour, Senior Associate, Advisory Services a NFF, Harris shares the forces that shaped him into the leader he is today: embracing vulnerability, expressing authenticity, and a sense of duty to his ancestors.
