My Distinguished guest today is New York City Council Member
Benjamin J. Kallos—Kallos
Represents District 5 in the City of New York: Roosevelt Island and
the Upper East Side.
Kallos has spent his entire political career fighting for New
Yorkers. As a member of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council he rose to
the position of Statewide Coordination Committee Chair, organizing
and managing over 4,000 attorneys and 350 law students, to protect
New Yorkers’ ability to vote in the most recent presidential
elections. Kallos also created the VoterSearch.org program to help protect the right
to vote for over 12 million New Yorkers when he learned that some 2
millions voters had been removed from the voter roles.
As a member of Community Board 8 he rose to the position of
Co-Chair for the Communications Committee, implementing open source
technology to reduce waste and
save the City thousands, publicizing the open
application process and opportunities to become
a public
member.
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