Mayor Bloomberg’s recent appointments to the City Commission on Human Rights represent the most diverse, highly qualified group of professionals in the agency’s history.

All eleven new Commissioners and the two individuals previously appointed are trailblazers in their own community and leaders in civil rights. Each has worked tirelessly towards preventing discrimination and improving life for all New Yorkers.

Their depth is not only measured by their diversity of race, creed, color, age, national origin, gender or sexual orientation, but by their qualifications and the valuable contributions they have already begun making to the Commission.

The Commissioners have been called upon to lend their expertise in such fields as: economic development, at-risk youth, disability access, employment for ex-offenders, and immigrant issues. Additionally, they will advise Commissioner Gatling on issues of discrimination.

The new Commissioners, along with the two individuals who were previously appointed, are: Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Matt Foreman, Dr. Edison O. Jackson, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, Grace Lyu-Volckhausen, William Malpica, Omar T. Mohammedi, Derek Bryson Park, Bryan Pu-Folkes, Lisa Quiroz, Jenny Rivera, Susan R. Scheer, and Marta B. Varela.

Above, with Mayor Bloomberg and CCHR Commissioner/Chair Gatling (center), are (left to right): Rev. Dr. Butts III, Dr. Jackson (partially hidden), Lyu-Volckhausen, Malpica, Mohammedi, Forman (partially hidden), Pu-Folkes, Quiroz, Rivera, Scheer and Park.