From the President

Kate Breslin SCAA President & CEO

Greetings! As the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy’s (SCAA’s) new President and CEO, I am delighted to be a part of this esteemed organization. I would like to take a moment to introduce myself to those who I have not yet met and say thanks to the many of you who have enthusiastically welcomed me. I am honored to be here at SCAA to continue to devote my career to improving policies that affect low-income and vulnerable people and communities. I started my professional career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where people suffered every day from a lack of basic necessities -- clean water, medicines to treat disease, mosquito nets – it was transformational. From there, I worked on issues ranging from low-income housing and homelessness to economic security, welfare, and health policy. I bring to the work a strong sense of responsibility to try to make things work better.

SCAA has long been a leader in thoughtfully analyzing, developing and promoting policies that lead to public systems that work on the ground level to improve people’s lives. I have been a friend and admirer of SCAA going back to the early 1990s and my days at the California Budget Project, when I thought of SCAA and its staff as friends from across the country.

I look forward to working with SCAA’s coalitions, partners, and supporters to continue to build and strengthen our work on behalf of children and families. I urge you to access the toolkits offered by Winning Beginning NY and New York CAN, and use these pieces to talk to elected representatives about issues that affect New York’s children and ultimately, all of us. If we don’t talk about the issues, our elected leaders won’t either.

Together, we can make a difference for New York’s children. Children are 25% of our population and 100% of our future.