New York City Commission on Human Rights

Commissioners
The Human Rights Commissioners are appointed by the Mayor to serve in a non-salaried position assisting the Commissioner and Chair, Patricia L. Gatling, in addressing issues of discrimination.

Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III
Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of the founders of the Abyssinian Development Corporation and President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

Jonathan Capehart
Senior Vice President and Senior Counselor of Public Affairs at Hill & Knowlton; Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award recipient.

Matt Foreman
Esq., Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Dr. Eda F. Harris-Hastick
ACSW, Ed.D., Tenured Associate Professor of Social Work at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York and a licensed clinical social worker.

Dr. Edison O. Jackson
President of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and Principal of the Ramaz School.

Grace Lyu-Volckhausen
President of the Tiger Baron Foundation.

William Malpica
Esq., Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, specializing in corporate and securities law.

Omar T. Mohammedi
Esq., Private attorney specializing in employment discrimination and corporate and real estate transactions.

Derek Bryson Park
Ph.D., Investment banker; Vice-Chair of the NYC Industrial Development Agency; Chair of the NYC Capital Resource Corporation; and Anglican Priest-in-Charge of a Brooklyn parish.

Lisa Quiroz
Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility for Time Warner Inc.

Jenny Rivera
Esq., Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law and lecturer at the New York County Lawyers Association Continuing Legal Education Institute.