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District 5 - Council Member - Democrat ~ Upper East Side's Yorkville, Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, Roosevelt Island, Midtown East, Sutton Place, El Barrio in East Harlem - Council Member Julie Menin is an attorney and civic leader with over two decades of experience in the public and private sectors. Julie chairs the Council’s Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and co-chairs the Women’s Caucus.
Since starting her tenure with the Council, Julie has passed 18 bills of which she was the primary sponsor, including the groundbreaking Healthcare Accountability Act. Her policy wins include advancing universal childcare in New York City, easing burdens on small businesses by instituting a one-shop-stop web portal for all city licenses, codifying the right to reproductive health services, and creating an Office of Healthcare Accountability to rein in excessive prices.
At the same time, Julie has effectively addressed a full range of constituent issues: sanitation and rat-mitigation concerns, street safety, unlicensed smoke shops, robust capital funding for district parks and schools, access to low-cost internet for NYCHA residents, and more.
Julie most recently served as New York City’s Census Director, achieving a historic result where the City finished first of all major cities. As Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, she spearheaded the creation of NYC Kids RISE, a nonprofit she helped found, which has now seeded college savings accounts for over 280,000 public school kindergarteners and collectively saved more than $44 million. She has also served as Commissioner of Media and Entertainment and as a Columbia University adjunct professor.
Julie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Columbia and received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law. She resides in Yorkville with her husband and children.
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