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CityAndStateNY.com
October 17, 2016
Henry L. Greenidge SENIOR POLICY ADVISER, BUDGET, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR’S OFFICE OF RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY Birthday: 6/7 Twitter: @HenryLawsonEsq
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T THE WHITE HOUSE, amid what he then believed was the pinnacle of his career, Henry Greenidge couldn’t shake the feeling he’d have a greater impact back home in New York City. He had just spent two months heeding the Federal Emergency Ma nagement Agency’s emergency request for help responding to Superstorm Sandy there. And the recovery work resonated with him enough that he eventually made his way to a senior policy advisor position in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency. “After you’ve been through something like that, when you’re working all these hours, for two months, very little sleep, you’re emotionally involved in this work. You go back to your desk job in D.C., and you feel not worthless, but I felt like I could be having a greater impact,” he says. “I just wanted to feel like I was helping someone, instead of coming up with these policy ideas and not knowing if they really worked.” By chance, a Sandy aid appropriation bill Greenidge worked on in D.C. now funds the office he works for. His duties involve handling an array of budgetary and legal issues. Many arise because the more than $20 billion in federal funding allocated to the city does not always align with state regulations and city requirements, Greenidge says. He works to make sure it’s properly spent and reported before deadlines arrive.
Where did you go to college? Hampton University If you didn’t work in politics/ government, what would you do? Music journalism