320 E 43rd St
New York NY, 10017
2:30 PM | Doors Open
3:00 PM | Keynote Remarks, Panel Discussions, Fireside Chat and Q&A
6:00 PM | Reception
Registration for Coro New York’s 2025 Leadership Summit is powered by GiveLively. Individual tickets will be on sale for $200 and include access to all Summit programming including an evening reception with passed hors d’oeuvres and an open bar.
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The 2025 Coro New York Leadership Summit will be held at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 320 E 43rd St, New York NY, 10017.
Bradley Honan, CEO & President, The Honan Strategy Group
Bradley Tusk, Founder and CEO, Tusk Ventures
Dynishal Gross, Commissioner, New York City Small Business Services
Greg Berman, Co-editor, Vital City
Jennifer Jones Austin, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Maria Torres-Springer, First Deputy Mayor of New York City
Rebecca Karp, Principal and CEO, Karp Strategies
Travis Terry, CEO Founder, Immortal Strategies
Maria Torres-Springer is New York City’s First Deputy Mayor, bringing 20 years of government experience to the role. She provides strategic direction, oversees operations and budgeting, and leads the City’s housing and economic development initiatives. Committed to delivering results for all New Yorkers, she works to ensure equitable growth and opportunity across the city.
As Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce, she has spearheaded the administration’s efforts to strengthen and diversify its economy, advance Mayor Adams’ moonshot goal of creating 500,000 new homes for New Yorkers, over the next decade, preserve and improve the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), bolster small business, connect New Yorkers to family-sustaining jobs, and expand access to arts and culture.
She previously was Vice President of US Programs at the Ford Foundation where she oversaw the foundation’s domestic grant making and made historic investments to support racial equity, workers’ rights, voting rights, and arts and culture across the country.
As commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Maria focused on the production of housing for the city’s most vulnerable communities, while also launching several new programs to protect tenants’ rights. She led the implementation of Housing New York, a five-borough, 12-year plan to create or preserve 300,000 affordable homes; and she steered the financing of approximately 60,000 affordable homes.
Earlier, as president and CEO of New York City Economic Development Corporation, Maria led the implementation of the new citywide ferry service and made major investments in key sectors of the city’s economy. She also spearheaded several neighborhood revitalization plans. Prior to that, as commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services, Maria prioritized efforts to raise wages and support women and immigrant-owned businesses and worked to prepare New Yorkers for 21st-century jobs.
Maria earned her bachelor’s degree in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale University and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Dynishal Gross is the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS).
Prior to serving as Commissioner, Dynishal served as Executive Deputy Commissioner, responsible for overseeing the agency’s four programmatic divisions supporting small businesses, government contractors, jobseekers, and commercial corridors citywide, as well as the work of the Food & Beverage Industry Partnership. Earlier in her SBS tenure, she served as the Deputy Commissioner for SBS’ Division of Economic and Financial Opportunity, supervising a team focused on increasing equity and financial opportunity for minority and women-owned businesses, as well as other underserved businesses. Dynishal also guided the work of the Labor Services unit, charged with enforcing the compliance of ICAP tax abatement beneficiaries and city vendors with equal employment opportunity, and other mandates.
Dynishal’s career in public service includes five years of work for members of the NYC Council, including serving as Director of Legislation and Budget for the chair of the Committee on Small Business, and nearly two years as Assistant Commissioner for Business Programs in SBS’ Division of Business Services. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Cornell University, an M.P.A. from Baruch College, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
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